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The Converted Roman Catholic, 

THOMAS RUSH, 

Author of ''What I Learned from the Bibles 



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BOSTON : 
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DEDICATION. 

On the 23rd of February, 1884, separated from 
my dear wife and boy, through the demon strong 
drink, and anticipating suicide, I carelessly strolled 
into the North End Mission, 201 North Street, Bos- 
ton, Mass., where I met that man of God, Rev. Benja- 
min Luscomb, then missionary at that life saving sta- 
tion, who, in his kind way, pointed me to the loving 
Saviour, who he told me died that I might live. To 
him, under God, I owe my salvation, restoration to my 
dear family, and a happy Christian home. There- 
fore, to you, my ever dear brother Luscomb, these 
pages are dedicated. Thomas Rush. 



PREFACE. 

Dear reader, these pages are presented to you as 
the result of years of study and silent prayer, hoping 
that our Heavenly Father may abundantly bless 
them. My greatest ambition in presenting this book 
to the public is first, that it may be instrumental in 
bringing many Roman Catholics out of spiritual 
darkness into the marvelous light of the Gospel, as 
it is in Christ Jesus, and secondly, that Christians 
may see the Roman Catholic Machine in its true 
light. I have published a portion of the following 
pages in pamphlet form with gratifying results. All 
facts given in this book are from Roman Catholic 
authorities, the Douay Bible (Roman Catholic 
Version) included. I give place, date, and names, 
so that I may safely challenge contradiction. 

vi. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Dedication, ...... 5 

Preface, 6 

Testimonials, ^ 

CHAPTER I. 

Why I Left the Roman Catholic Church.— The 
Pope, Celibacy, the Confessional and Pur- 
gatory, 17 

CHAPTER 11. 
The unblushing Impudence of the ''Machine" in 
trying to destroy our Public Schools. — The Im- 
moral Conduct of the Roman Catholic Priest- 
hood and its Two-faced Hypocrisy, . 40 

CHAPTER HI. 

The Church without a Bible. — Its Godless 
Teachings. — Its Superstitions. — Its estimate 
of the Christian Ministry, the Christian people 

and their Bible, 63 

vii. 



VUl. 



CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 

The Sacrifice of the Mass. — The Doctrines of the 
Jesuits. — Papal Decrees, her cruelty toward 
those who leave her. — Romanism utterly in- 



compatible with the Law 


of God, 


80 


The Pope's Blessing to be 


Dreaded, 


99 


A Terrible Record, 




101 


Bishop's Oath, 




104 


Priest's Oath, 




106 


Jesuit's Oath, 


. 


107 


Oath of a Layman, 


) 


109 


Opinions of Distinguished 


Men, . 


115 


An Appeal, 


, 


121 



TESTIMONIALS. 

Boston, June 18, 1890. 
Mr. Thomas Rush, a member of the M. E. Church, 
duly recommended by his pastor and other ministers 
of the Gospel, spoke in my church on Sunday even- 
ing last to a crowded audience, who listened with 
deep attention, and were much impressed by his ad- 
dress. Mr. Rush, himself a converted Roman 
Catholic, handles his subject with clearness and 
force, but with a real Christian charity so speaks as 
to disarm prejudice and reach the conscience. Our 
people would be glad to hear him again. 

Rev. James Yeames, 
Pastor M. E, Churchy Dorchester St., Washington til- 
lage, 

209 W. Canton St., Boston, Mass., June 18, 1890. 

Bro. Rush has spoken in the Bromfield Street 
Church on my invitation, and it gives me pleasure 
to give the fullest indorsement to the words of com- 
mendation written by Bro. Yeames. 

Rev. George A. Crawford. 

Bro. Thomas Rush gave a lecture on Romanism 
in the Central M. E. Church, of Lowell, Mass., of 
which I am pastor. It gives me great pleasure to 
say that all present, without exception, were greatly 
edified ; the matter of the lecture and the spirit of 
our brother greatly commended him. I am sure 

ix. 



X. TESTIMONIALS. 

that any one who will give this dear brother a hear- 
ing will confer a great benefit upon themselves. 

Rev. J. N. Short. 

F. W. Hagar, Boston, Oct. 20, 1890. 

Dear Sir : — Yours of Oct. 20th at hand, and con- 
tents noted. In reply would say, it was my privilege 
to listen to Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted Roman 
Catholic, the evening that he lectured for the Taber- 
nacle Y. M. I., and it gives me pleasure to say that 
I was more than entertained. Never have I listened 
to a more interesting, earnest, and convincing talk 
than was given on this occasion, and the most beau- 
tiful part of it was that it contained so much of the 
spirit of the Master. Truly "he has been with Jesus 
and learned of him.'' The interesting part to me 
was that his lecture contained so much of the word 
of God, and that he spoke the word in the name of 
the Master, which soon told upon his hearers, for at 
the close of the meeting we had three young men 
come forward for prayers. Sincerely yours, 
N. F. Thayers, 
President Tabernacle Young Men's Institute, 

Lowell, Mass., Sept. 3, 1890. 
To whom it may concern : Bro. Thomas Rush, of 
Boston, spoke in our church last (Tuesday) evening 
to a large congregation, including quite a number of 
Roman Catholics. His theme was "The Sacrifice of 
the Mass, or the Sacrifice of Christ, which?" His 
address was clear, forceful and admirable in spirit. 
Bro. Pastors, open to Bro. Rush the door of oppor- 
tunity. His cause is a great one, and he is worthy. 
W.T.Pepin, 

Pastor of Worthen St. Af, E, Church. 



TESTIMONIALS. XI. 

Lowell, Mass , July 12, 1890. 
Mr. Thomas Rush spoke in our church last night. 
His personal knowledge of Roman Catholicism, his 
kindly spirit, and his keen Irish wit fit him in a re- 
markable degree for the work to which the Lord 
seems to have called him. He is earnest without 
being fanatical, and strong without bitterness. 
Alexander Blackburn, 

Pastor First Baptist Church. 

5 Chardon St., Boston, July 10, 1890. 
It gives me great pleasure to say that the pam- 
phlet written by Bro. Rush, entitled "What I learned 
from the Bible," is calculated to do great good 
among Roman Catholics. I can highly commend 
it as a useful book for distribution. Allow me to 
give a word of commendation to the author of it. I 
believe I never met a more earnest Christian man in 
my life than Bro. Rush. A few moments' conversa- 
tion wuth him will very quickly tell that he is a true 
follower of the Master, and one worthy of the sym- 
pathy and love of all God's people. 

Rev. Joseph Slattery, 

Converted Roman Catholic Priest. 

Mr. Thomas Rush, of Boston, is an ex- Romanist, 
a good speaker, an earnest Christian and a man of 
the very best recommendations from Boston clergy- 
men and business men. We know of no public 
speaker who is more kindly received than Mr. Rush. 
— British American Citizen. 

We have recently had a very interesting interview 
with Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted Romanist. 
He has the endorsement of many clergymen; the 



XU. TESTIMONIALS. 

universal testimony is, that his addresses are very 
effective. Mr. Rush's kindly spirit and unobtrusive 
manner, make him a general favorite.— Woman's 
Voice and Public School Champion, 

Thomas Rush, an ex-Romanist, lectured to a 
crowded house last Monday night; many could not 
gain an entrance. He is an Irishman with a very 
pronounced brogue, and is one of those witty kind 
one often reads about. He will speak again next 
Monday evening in Society Hall. — Everett Free 
Press. 

WoLLASTON, Mass., June 9, 1891. 
Dear Brother Rush: The people of my con- 
gregation were pleased and profited by your lecture 
Sunday evening, May 31st. We admire your fear- 
less, honest, earnest. Christian manner of dealing 
with your great subject. May the Lord use you in 
bringing many souls from darkness to light. 
Fraternally, 

Luther Freeman, 

Pastor M. E. Church. 

Lowell, July 8, 1890. 
On the evening of Sunday, June 23rd, Mr. Thomas 
Rush gave his reasons for leaving Rome, to a large 
audience. There were a number of Roman Catho- 
lics. I have no hesitancy in endorsing Brother 
Rush as an honest. Christian man. 

Rev. Luther Barrett, 

Pastor Fifth St, Baptist Church. 

Cliftondale, Mass., July 7, 1890. 
I have read with much interest a pamphlet written 
and pubhshed by Mr. Thomas Rush, the converted 
Roman Catholic, entitled, '* What I Learned From 



TESTIMONIAL^. XIII. 

the Bible." Mr. Rush displays an excellent knowl- 
edge of the Roman system, and by apt and striking 
quotations from the word of God, portrays its glar- 
ing inconsistencies. I hope that this pamphlet will 
meet with the large circulation it deserves, and that 
Mr. Rush may receive every encouragement in his 
good work. 

J. B. Daly, 

Converted Roman Catholic Priest. 

Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1891. 
F.vangelist Thomas Rush has spoken twice for us 
in Music Hall. It gives me great pleasure to add 
that both his lectures were enthusiastically received. 
Rev. E. G. Wesley, 

Chairman of Meetings, 

HoLLiSTON, Mass., Dec. 23, 1890. 
Dear Brother Rush: Our people were more 
than satisfied with your lecture here on Sunday 
evening, the 14th inst. Your coming arrested the 
attention of our citizens, and brought out a full 
house* The telling facts presented, the spirit of 
love displayed, made a profound impression upon 
them, many of whom at the close of the meeting 
and since, expressed a desire to have the lecture 
again at an early date. 

J. H. Emerson, 

Pastor M, E. Church. 

Wilmington, Mass., Dec. 7, 1890. 
To whom it may concern : Brother Thomas Rush, 
of Boston, recently lectured in our church on Ro- 
manism. The lecture was both instructive and enter- 
taining. I commend Brother Rush to anyone need- 



XIV. TESTIMONIALS. 

ing his services, as a sincere, consecrated, Christian 
man, and worthy your consideration. 
Wm. a. Thurston, 

Pastor M. E, Church, 

Nahant, Mass., Sept. 19, 1890. 
Mr. Thomas Rush, of Boston, spoke to my con- 
gregation on Sunday evening, Sept. 14. I take 
pleasure in commending Brother Rush as an earnest 
speaker. The large congregation that heard him 
were well pleased. 

J. C. Willetts, 

Pastor M. E. Church, 

RocKviLLE, R. I., Feb. 17, 1890. 
We had the pleasure of listening to Brother Thom- 
as Rush, of Boston, Mass., on the evening of Febru- 
ary 16. Brother Rush spoke with great freedom 
and earnestness, and the congregration was greatly 
pleased with the effort. He held the audience for 
an hour in rapt attention. He is a man of excel- 
lent spirit, and at once gains the confidence of his 
hearers. All hail to such men ! 

A. McLearn, 

Pastor Baptist Church, 

Providence, R. I., Dec. 24, 1890. 
Thomas Rush on '' the Bible.'' Although the 
audience at Music Hall on Sunday last was not as 
large as usual, it was most appreciative, as the wit 
and eloquence of Mr. Rush, of Boston, seemed to 
strike a responsive chord in the nature of his listen- 
ers. He is an Irishman, with the deep, impulsive 
nature of the true son of the sod. The audience 
that greeted him was not large, but should he ever 



TESTIMONIALS. XV. 

speak from this platform again, Music Hall will not 
hold the crowd that will surge to hear him. At the 
close of his lecture the applause was so deafening 
and prolonged that Mr. Rush had to return and 
speak for fifteen minutes longer. — Special correspon- 
dent to British American Citizen. 

Hope Valley, R. I., Feb. 19, 1891. 
Brother Thomas Rush, of Boston, Mass., gave two 
very interesting lectures in our church. I was very 
much interested while listening, not only in the sub- 
ject but the speaker. His whole soul is in the work, 
and his aim is not to put down the communicants of 
the Roman church, but to be faithful to his convic- 
tions as a converted man, and declare the truth as it 
is, hoping that by so doing he may become the in- 
strument in God's hands of winning souls to the 
faith as it is in Christ Jesus. I heartily indorse him 
in his work, and trust that all who are interested in 
the welfare of our glorious country, will lend a lis- 
tening ear and helping hand to our brother, that the 
great work may go on until every American citizen 
shall be able to see the true position of the Roman 
Catholic Church to our free public institutions. 
God bless Brother Rush in his work, is my prayer. 
J. Harding Baker, 

Pastor M. E. Church. 



CHAPTER I. 



WHY I LEFT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



THE POPE, CELIBACY, THE CONFESSIONAL AND 
PURGATORY. 

My reasons for leaving the Roman Catholic 
Church were many. Some of them are not fit for 
publication. None but those who have been in that 
" Sentry Box of Hell," commonly called the confes- 
sionalj could believe or understand them". Many 
years ago, when a very young man, I madly loved my 
native land, which brought down upon my head, 
like thousands of other young men, the curse of the 
Roman Machine. I began to ask myself, ** My God, 
is it a sin for one to love his native land } " and rea- 
son would at once tell me that it was not. I did not 
then know anything about the words of the Psalmist: 
'* If I forget thee. Oh Jerusalem, may my right hand 
forget its cunning ; " but I knew enough of history 
to convince me that the Machine wanted to keep us 
in slavery. I knew that there was an Englishman 
by the name of Nicholas Breakspeare (Pope Adrian 
IV.) who did not know who his father was until he 



18 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

was twenty four years old, and that this very man 
sold my native land and its inhabitants to old 
King John II of England, for a penny a head, 
thus taking away from the Irish race everything 
ihat was dear to them, especially the simple re- 
ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ, planted there 
by St. Patrick. Then again I began to doubt 
the Roman Catholic burial service. I thought 
that God ought not to keep a man out of 
Heaven because he was poor. Dear reader, let me 
explain this to you according to the teachings of the 
Machine. No man nor woman can go to Heaven 
without going through the purifying fire of Purga- 
tory. I will explain this gold mine of Romanism 
further on. The principal things that shook my 
faith in the Roman Catholic religion were the con- 
fessional and the immoral and high living of its 
priests. The confessional always left a plague spot 
upon my memory ; I often asked myself, *' Can this 
be of God } " and reason would answer at once, No ; 
such criminal conversation is of the Devil. Oh, my 
Christian mothers, did you ever think of this cess- 
pool of iniquity ? Christian fathers, have you ever 
thought of this abomination? 

Oh, my brothers, this is a disgrace to civilization, 
and laws should be enacted for its suppression. 
Hogan, himself once a Catholic priest, says : 
^* Though a married man, I would blush to mention 
the least of them. I cannot even think of them 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 19 

without a downcast eye and crimson cheek. My 
own wife could tell you that she had been asked 
questions in the confessional that she did not un- 
derstand until she became a mother." 

Is it any wonder then, that houses of ill-fame are 
crowded with Roman Catholic girls ? I answer, no ; 
the wonder is that there are not more of them, fed 
as they are upon such criminal conversation. If 
any one doubts my statements let them consult the 
acknowledged Theologians of Rome, — Dens, Ken- 
drick and others, — and I am satisfied that you will 
do as I have often done, throw them down in disgust 
and come to the conclusion that the Devil must have 
been at the elbows of those monsters in the shape of 
man when writing such filth. 

A near friend of mine, a D. D. in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, when speaking to him upon this 
subject a short time ago, said to me, "Brother Rush, 
we have many men in state-prisons for distributing 
obscene literature that is very mild when compared 
with the Theology of Rome." I will dismiss this 
subject of the confessional at present, as I am to 
speak of it again from the light of the Blessed Gos- 
pel as it is in Christ Jesus. 

Dear reader, I have been talking to you as one 
who has spent thirty-six years of his life a dupe to 
the dark superstitions of the Roman Catholic Ma- 
chine, and will now write as a young student of 
God's word, and ask your sympathy and prayer that 



20 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

God may bless me in my labors. Somebody has 
truly said that the pope is an enraged wolf, against 
which the whole world should rise, without waiting 
for a magistrate's warrant, and I say amen. 

Let us first ask by whom was the Pope appointed 
head of the Church ? Let God speak and man listen. 
The Bible alone is competent to solve this question. 
Well, what does it say of the Pope of Rome? Does it 
favor the claims of Leo XIII? With remarkable 
clearness the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, not 
the Pope, is the only head of the true church. 

This assertion is satisfactorily settled by the fol- 
lowing passages: 

Eph. I. 22 : And he hath subjected all things under 
his feet ; and hath made him head over all the 
church. 

Col. I. 18 : And he is the head of the body, the 
church. 

Eph. 5. 23 : Because the husband is the head of 
the wife, as Christ is the head of the Church. 

1 Tim. 6. 15: Which in his times he shall show, 
who is the blessed and only mighty, the King of 
kings and Lord of lords. 

Thus there is a head, but it is Jesus Christ, and 
not Pope Leo XIII. The Savipur has never estab- 
lished any man to be his representative upon earth, 
nor given any orders to anybody to appoint one for 
him. On the contrary, he positively said to his 
disciples that he would have no pope, master or 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 21 

ruler among them. Nowhere can we see that this 
command was revoked afterward. 

Matt. 23. 8-12 : But be you not called Rabbi, for 
one is your Master, and all you are brethren; and 
call none your Father upon earth, for one is your 
Father, who is in Heaven. Neither be ye called 
masters, for one is your Master, Christ. He that is 
the greatest among you shall be your servant, and 
whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, 
and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 

Oh, what a contrast between the lowly Jesus and 
our past and present popes. Listen to the words of 
Jesus to such as pretend to follow him. Allow me 
to call your attention to the 10th chapter of Mark 
42d and 43d and 44th verses. 

But Jesus called them to him and said unto them, 
Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over 
the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and their 
great ones exercise authority upon them, but so shall 
it not be among you, but whosoever shall be great 
among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of 
you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 

I Peter 5. 1-3 : The elders which are among you I 
exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the 
sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory 
that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is 
among you, taking the oversight thereof; not by 
constraint^ but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a 
ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heri- 
tage, but being ensample to the flock. 

Priests, bishops and Popes pretend to prove the 
apostle Peter was established Pope, and that he is 



22 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

this rock upon which the church is built, by these 
words of Christ. 

Matt. 16. 18 : 'Thou art Peter, and upon this 
Rock I will build my church, and the Gates of Hell 
shall not prevail against it.'' Examine this passage 
in connection with the two preceding verses, and 
you will see that it means nothing of the kind. In 
the 16th verse Peter exclaims, ''Thou art Christ, the 
Son of the living God." The Saviour, hearing this 
forcible and astonishing declaration of his faith, tells 
him, 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will 
build my church.'' Observe that he does not tell him: 
"Thou art Peter, and upon thee, Peter, I will build 
my church." But upon this rock, that is to say, 
upon Christ, the true rock, the object of the confes- 
sion he has just made. Such is the real signification 
of this passage. No, the church is not built upon 
the apostle Peter, but upon this rock, which is Jesus 
Christ j in short, Peter ha-s not been the first pope, 
nor the foundation of the Church. This rock of 
Peter I found to be nothing but a soap-stone, and a 
very slippery one at that. Now read what the Bible 
says on this question : 

Cor. 3. II: For other foundation no man can lay 
but that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus 

Eph 2. 20-21: Built upon the foundation of the 
apostles and prophets, Jesus Chri-^t himself being 
the chief corner stone, in whom all the building 
being framed together groweth into a holy temple 
in the Lord. 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 23 

Again, we have the testimony of Peter himself: 
1 Peter 2. 4 : *'Unto who mcoming, as to a living 
stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made 
honorable by God/' Thus according to the Holy 
Scriptures there is no pope, master or ruler among 
the children of God besides Jesus Christ. Now 
what are you going to do with the Pope of Rome.^ 
Simply nothing more nor less than to leave him just 
where he is, and consider him neither more nor less 
than any other sinful man. If you think that he is 
the head of Christianity, be deceived no longer, my 
dear Catholic reader, for he is only the head of 
Romanism, and what Romanism was in the past 
and is to this present day, the blood of the martyrs 
can answer for the past, and its attacks upon the 
grandest system of education the world has ever 
known, — your public schools — can and will answer 
for the present. Christ, the only true head of the 
Christian Church, is infallible, and has always been 
so, but can we say this of the Pope of Rome.'* No; 
emphatically no. His infallibility is a very modern 
invention. This ungodly and unscriptural doctrine 
was declared on the 13th of July, 1870; not by the 
supreme authority of God, or of the Holy Scriptures, 
but by the feeble voice of a council of sinful men 
assembled in the Vatican. Now my Roman Catholic 
reader, if you can believe this twenty-two years old 
infallibility, I cannot. It is too absurd and too 
false. It takes, or attempts to take, away from God 



24 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

that honor which to him alone belongs, and should 
not be tolerated outside of a lunatic asylum. In- 
fallibility is not of the earth, nor in the hearts of 
men. The Bible is explicit on this point. 

Rom. 3. 4, 12: But God is true, and every man a 
liar; all have turned out of the way; they are be- 
come unprofitable together; there is none that doeth 
good ; there is not so much as one. James 3. 2: 
For in many things we all offend. 1 John i. 8 : If 
we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and 
the truth is not in us. 

For my closing words upon this subject let me 
read the Apostle Paul's opinion of the Pope of 
Rome, of his destiny, and of his followers; nothing 
harder, but nothing truer. 

2 Thess. 2. 3, 4, 7-11 : Let no man deceive you 
by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, 
and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdi- 
tion who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is 
called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in 
the temple of God, showing himself as if he were 
God; for the mystery of iniquity already worketh, and 
then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the 
Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth, 
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; 
him, whose coming is according to the workings of 
Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders, 
and in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish, 
because they received not the love of the truth that 
they might be saved : therefore God shall send them 
the operation of error to believe lying, that all may 
be judged who have not believed the truth, but have 
consented to iniquity. 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY.' 25 

Having partly shown the novelty of this infalli- 
bility of his Royal Highness, the Pope of Rome, and 
all his predecessors, even though they should be 
short taken in a procession like Pope Joan, it is a 
laughable thing to hear of a pope giving birth to a 
child in a procession, but such is a notorious fact, 
and yet they are infalliblej but this fact must have 
its origin in the confessional, of which I wtII write 
later on. 

Knowing from personal experience, and from 
facts that I shall present as I advance, of the immoral 
conduct of the Roman Catholic Machine and their 
objections to married life, I will call your attention 
to what the divine word has to say about this 
blessed institution, Matrimony. Heb. 13. 4 : ^'Mar- 
riage is honorable in all." This blessed declaration 
takes in all, priests, ministers, bishops and pope. 
Where is it taught in the word of God that priests 
and bishops must not marry? The teachings of the 
Bible, from beginning to end, favor marriage of all 
men, but especially of priests and bishops. Read 
the following passages, and you will see whether it 
is better to have a married or unmarried ministry. 
We read in Gen. 2. 18 : '*And the Lord said, it is 
not goocj for man to be alone." But the Machine 
says, "We don't care what the Lord says, we are 
going to do as we like. If we wish to have a hand- 
some housekeeper or a pretty niece to grace our 
home It is none of the Lord's business." Let us see 



26 • THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

what the apostle Paul has to say upon this subject. 
1 Tim. 3d chapter and first five verses. Don't for- 
get, my Roman Catholic reader, that this solemn dec- 
laration can be found in your Douay Bible. I be- 
seech you, seach it and see for yourselves. 

This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of 
a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2. A bishop 
then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, 
vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, 
apt to teach. 3. Not given to wine, no striker, not 
greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not 
covetous. 4. One that ruleth well his own house, 
having his children in subjection, with all gravity. 
5. For if a man know not how to rule his own house 
how shall he take care of the Church of God. 

And again in the 4th chapter of the same book, 
first two verses and the first clause in the third. 

Now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter 
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed 
to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking 
lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with 
a hot iron. 3. Forbidding to marry. 

Let us pause, gentle reader, and consider this 
sweeping condemnation: let us briefly look at the 
1st chapter of Titus, 5. 6, 7 verses. 

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou 
shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, 
and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed 
thee; if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, 
having children not accused of riot or unruly. 
7. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 27 

of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to 
wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre. 

It is certain that some of the apostles had wives, 
nevertheless they were holy men, and sent of God to 
preach the gospel to perishing sinners. Christ never 
made celibacy a condition to his sacred ministry. 
This, \^ have been told in Timothy, is a doctrine of 
the Devil. Now turn to first Cor. 9. 5-6. 

Have we not power to carry about a woman, a 
sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the 
brethren of the Lord, and Cephas or I only and Bar- 
nabas? Have we not the power to do this? Matt. 
8. 14: And when Jesus came into Peter's house he 
saw his wife's mother lying and sick of a fever. 

Now, in order to prove beyond all doubt that 
ecclesiastical celibacy is far from being a divine in- 
stitution^ let me repeat the words of St. Paul and tell 
you that is a doctrine of the Devil. *' It is hard, 
but it is true ; " those are the words of the great and 
fearless aoostle. Enough ; it is satisfactorily estab- 
lished that the celibacy of the clergymen of Rome 
finds no basis in the Holy Scriptures. If you con- 
sult ecclesiastical history, you will find that it was 
invented or declared an article of faith in the tenth 
century. Therefore, without fear of being contra- 
dicted, except by ignorant persons, I declare it a 
human invention. It was never taught by Christ 
nor his apostles. Roman Catholic laymen ought not 
to ignore this important truth. Before the tenth 
century, priests, bishops and popes had wives and 



28 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

children. In the canon law of the church of Rome, a 
long list of popes is given who were either sons of 
popes or of bishops ; as for instance, Boniface I, 
Felix III, Adrian II, Agapetus I, Agapetus II, and 
several others. Many councils mention the wiv^es 
and children of bishops then ; they were right, be- 
cause they followed the teachings of the Holy Scrip- 
tures. Now they are wrong, because they transgress 
God's commandments and submit to the traditions 
of men. But who authorized them to make this 
change ? No human organization nor power, however 
great it may be, has any right to formulate dogmas 
contrary to Christ's dogmas, or to make the least 
change in God's laws or in the Saviour's precepts. 

John 15. 14 : You are my friends if you do the 
things that I command you, saith the Lord. 

Once more I wish to call your attention to the re- 
cruiting office of his satanic majesty, the confes- 
sional. Was confession instituted by Christ and 
practiced by the apostles ? I answer, no ; emphati- 
cally no. Confession was neither taught by Christ 
nor practiced by the apostles ; this invention is the 
outgrowth of several centuries of darkness and ignor- 
ance. Towards the end of the second century, when 
a member of the church committed a grave sin, he 
was obliged to confess it before a meeting of the 
whole church \ but in 450, under Leo I, Bishop of 
Rome, this public confession became private, and in 
1215, the Council of Lateran, gathered by the 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 29 

order of Pope Innocent III, declared private confes- 
sion an article of faith. If you doubt this statement 
consult ecclesiastical history and satisfy yourself. 
Open the Bible ; does it teach that we must confess 
in the ears of the priests? No; but to God alone. 
God alone through Jesus Christ can give us absolu- 
tion of our tran^igressions, and that without the as- 
sistance of priest or minister. Read these few pas- 
sages, and you will see to whom the true confession 
must be^made. Certainly you will not say that it is 
to the priest or pope or any of his cardinals : 

Luke 5. 18-24: And behold men brought in a 
bed a man who had the palsy, and they sought 
means to bring him in and to lay him before Him. 
And when they could not find by what way they 
might bring him in, because of the multitude, they 
went up upon the roof and let him down through the 
tiles, with his bed, in the midst before Jesus, whose 
faith when he saw, he said, ** Man, thy sins are for- 
given thee/' and the Scribes and Pharisees began to 
think saying, '*Who is this who speaketh blasphem- 
ies? Who can forgive sins but God alone? " And 
when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering, he said 
to them, '^ What is it you think in your hearts ? 
Which is easier to say, thy sins are forgiven thee, or 
to say arise and walk ? But that you may know that 
the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," 
he said to the sick of the palsy, '* I say to thee, arise, 
take up thy bed and go into thy house." 

1 John 1.9: If we confess our sins he is faithful 
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us 
from all unrighteousness. 



30 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

Acts 5. 31 : Him hath God exalted with his right 
hand to be the prince and saviour, to give repent- 
ance to Israel and remission of sins. 

Matt. 11. 28 : Come to me all you that labor and 
are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. 

Acts 8. 22 : Repent, therefore, of this thy wicked- 
ness, and pray God, if, perhaps, the thoughts of 
thine heart be forgiven thee. 

Luke 23 42 : (The dying thief.) And he said 
unto Jesus, '* Lord, remember me when thou comest 
into thy kingdom." 

Luke 18. 13 : And the publican standing afar off 
would not so much as lift up his eyes towards 
Heaven, but struck his breast, saying, '' Oh, God be 
merciful to me a sinner. 

Psalm 50. 1, 4, 6 : Have mercy on me, O God, ac- 
cording to .thy great mercy, and according to the 
multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my iniqui- 
ties. Wash me yet more from my iniquity and 
cleanse me from my sin. To thee only have I 
sinned and have done evil before thee. 

There is not a single word in the Holy Book 
which commands, suggests or approves of confes- 
sion to the priest. God has never given authority 
to any mortal being to know the secrets of the heart. 
Who shall dare to say that it is not absurd, even 
shameful, for a married woman or a young lady to 
reveal all her sins by thoughts, by desires, by words 
and by actions, into the ears of a sinful man, often 
more corrupt than the one who confesses to him ? Do 
not be deceived. Religion does not consist in such 
indecent and criminal conversations. It is only 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 31 

by kneeling before God with contrite spirits, that we 
can receive absolution of our sins. To kneel before 
priests and confess to them and call them ''fathers/' 
is nothing less than degrading to man and insulting 
to God, who forbids all these things in his word. 
Not only the Bible is against this iniquitous practice , 
but even reason. A man kneeling before a man ! 
Have you ever thought seriously about this ? 

Acts 10. 25-26 : And it came to pass that when 
Peter was come in, Cornelius met him, and falling 
down at his feet, adored ; but I^eter lifted him up 
saying, ''Arise, I myself also am a man.'' 

Rev. 22. 8-9 : And I, John, who have heard and 
seen these things, and after I had heard and seen, 
I fell down to adore before the feet of the angel who 
showed me these things. And he said to me, 
" See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant j 
adore God." 

Matt. 23. 9 : And call none your father upon 
earth, for one is your father who is in Heaven. 

The Romanists make a great noise about the 
words of our Saviour in John 20. 23 : " Whose sins 
you shall forgive they are forgiven them, and whose 
sins you shall retain they are retained." Well, 
what do these words teach, confession to a priest ? 
Not at all ; they simply mean that Christ gave t(;^his 
disciples the power and authority to preach the gos- 
pel, which, if accepted, forgives, remits, saves ; or if 
rejected, retains, binds or looses sinners. This they 
did, and nothing more. 



32 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

We find in Acts 10. 43 : '' To him all the prophets 
give testimony that by his name all receive remis- 
sion of sins who believe in him ; '' and in the 13th 
chapter of the same book, 38th verse : '^ Be it known, 
therefore, to you, men and brethren, that through him 
forgiveness of sins is preached to you.'' 

Let me quote once more from Luke 24. 46-47 : 
'^ Thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise 
again from the dead the third day, and that penance 
and remission of sins should be preached in his 
name among all nations." You cannot find a single 
place in the New Testament where an apostle or 
minister of Christ took upon himself to absolve^ par- 
don or forgive any one. God alone can absolve, 
condemn or save. One more remark : These 
words, " Whose sins you shall forgive they are for- 
given them ; and whose you shall retain they are 
retained/' were addressed not only to the apos- 
tles, but to the disciples and men and women 
to the number of 120 in Jerusalem. Compare 
the 20th chapter of John with the first and 
second chapters of Acts ; thus the same power 
is given to all Christians. The Bible and eccle- 
siastical history are witnesses that auricular con- 
fession and absolution by the priests are noth- 
ing else but an infamous imposture. Therefore, 
let us all, instead of going to the confessor, go to God 
through the merits of Christ, and say, " Forgive us 
our sins," Luke 11. 4. This is the truth, nor as it 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 33 

comes from the Pope of Rome, but as it comes from 
Christ, who redeemed us from our sins on Calvary. 

Now, my dear Catholic reader, w^hat are you going 
to do, believe God's infallible word, or your self- 
made infallible Pope? Bring this solemn thought 
before you. Where shall I spend eternity? You 
cannot plead before the judgment throne of God that 
you did not know the facts in the case. You have 
been told according to God's word the right way, 
and may the dear Jesus who died for you and for 
me, grant that you may be on his side. 

Another of the satanic doctrines of Rome is Pur- 
gatory. I ask, is the doctrine of Purgatory a hu- 
man invention, or was it taught by Jesus Christ and 
his apostles? It is my purpose to prove to you that 
it is like all the rest of the teachings of the Romish 
Church, simply the invention of sinful, wicked men. 
In the first place we must know what that place com- 
monly called Purgatory is. Having never been 
there, and finding nothing in the Bible about it, I 
am obliged to ask the Roman Catholic Machine to 
enlighten you upon this strange and mysterious 
place. The Catechism of Quebec, published with 
the approbation of the first Provincial Council, re- 
veals the whole thing with perfect knowledge. Pur- 
gatory, says the infallible catechism, is a place of 
suffering where the just go after death in order to 
finish the expiation of their sins before entering 
into Heaven. My Christian reader, I appeal to your 



34 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

judgment, you who are conversant with God*s word, 
is this not blasphemy ? Is this what God promises 
the just, send them to be tormented and purified in 
a second-hand Hell? Away with such nonsense. It 
is a lie on the face of it. In the Holy Scriptures God 
speaks of the existence of Heaven and Hell, but he 
does not say a word of the existence of Purgatory. 
Would it be possible that he had entirely forgotten 
to mention, even once, the existence of a place so 
important for the Roman Catholic Church? The 
silence of the Bible on this question is very eloquent. 
It demonstrates, beyond doubt, that it is not by 
the means of Purgatory that hearts are purified from 
evil. If there were such a purifying place, the Bible 
would certainly speak of it, but if the Bible is silent 
on Purgatory, it is not silent with reference to this 
truth, that it is only the precious blood of Christ 
that purifies from all sin. *Here are passages that 
you can compare with the teachings of the catechism: 

Rom. 5.9: Christ died for us, much more therefore 
being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved 
from wrath through him. 

Rom. 8. 1 : There is now therefore no condem- 
nation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 

1 John 1.7: The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, 
cleanseth us from a]l sin ; and in the 9th verse, if 
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive 
us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity. 

Are not all these passages sufficient to convince 
us that Christ alone is the only means by which we 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 35 

can be made fit subjects for Heaven, without pas- 
sing through the imaginary purifying flames of 
Purgatory? How ridiculous and absurd it is then to 
speak of Purgatory when the New Testament is so 
explicit in teachin i us that we are entirely sanctified 
by Christ. If Jesus Christ sanctifies, he sanctifies 
perfectly or not at all. Now bring your priest or 
bishop and let them show me, in the word of God, a 
single passage that teaches us that after death the 
just go to Purgatory in order to finish the expiation 
of their sins before entering into Heaven. 

Nowhere does the Bible speak of a middle state of 
temporary punishment, but it says that after death 
the righteous enter into the joy of everlasting rest, 
and not to a place of suffering and woe. When the 
Christian leaves this world he goes to be with 
Christ, a thing by far the better. We are told in 
Luke 23. 43 : 

And Jesus said to him (the dying thief on the 
cross), ^*Amen; I say to thee, this day thou shalt 
be with me in paradise.*' 

And again we find in 2 Cor. 5. 8 : 

We are confident and have a good will to be ab- 
sent rather from the body, and to be present with 
the Lord. 

And once more let us go back to Luke 16. 22-25 : 

And it came to pass that the beggar died and was 

carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom ; and 

the rich man also died, and he was buried in Hell ; 

and lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he 



36 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, 
and he cried and said, " Father Abraham, have 
mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the 
tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, for I am 
tormented in this flame/' And Abraham said to 
him, '' Son, remember that thou didst receive good 
things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil 
things, but now he is comforted and thou art tor- 
mented. 

Rev. 14. 13 : Blessed are the dead who die in the 
Lord, from henceforth now, saith the spirit, that 
they may rest from their labors, for their works fol- 
low them. 

Jesus Christ and the apostles never taught the ex- 
istence of Purgatory. The existence of this strange 
place was first promulgated in the fifth century. The 
idea of Purgatory was developed in the darkness of 
the middle ages. In 1438 the Council of Florence 
dared to declare it an article of faith, so it took 
nine hundred years to compete this gigantic work of 
making a purgatory. It was certainly quite an in- 
vention for these dark and ancient days, but what was 
the purpose of the Roman Catholic Machine in 
imagining and preaching the existence of such a 
place ? To make money and become rich is my an- 
swer. It is an undeniable fact, according to their 
teachings, that no one can get out of that hot place 
before some generous friend or rela:ion pours dol- 
lars upon dollars into the priest's long and bottom- 
less purse. When a poor man dies, if he does not 
leave behind him some money or good friend to as- 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 37 

sist him, he must wait for the resurrection of the 
dead in Purgatory, but when a rich man dies, with 
his money he can get out of Purgatory immediately. 
Happy are the wealthy with the priest, but woe unto 
the poor. No money, no Heaven ; no money, no 
christening ; no money, no marriage ; no money, no 
pews io the church ; no money, no burial ; no mon- 
ey — you can get nothing from this machine of the 
Devil. 

Who can deny that the Church of Rome is not 
a money making concern ? Like all other earthly 
transactions, the more money you have, the more of 
their stock in trade you can have. Dear reader, be- 
lieve me, if Purgatory were a divine institution it 
would not 'swallow up so much money extorted from 
the poor, the widows and the orphans. What a sys- 
tem of robbery ! No ! No! Salvation cannot be 
bought ; the sinner can be saved without giving a 
cent. Eternal life is a gift. Oh ! what a blessed 
promise made by the dear Saviour of mankind. Let 
us look at the 10th chapter of Matt. 7th and 8th 
verses, and going, preach, saying, "the kingdom of 
Heaven is at hand, heal the sick, raise the dead, 
cleanse the leper, cast out devils, freely have you 
received, freely give." 

Now, I ask any candid Roman Catholic, what can 
you get freely from the priests and bishops of Rome? 
I answer without fear of contradiction, nothing, 
unless it is their curse, and in this they are experts. 



38 THE POPE, CELIBACY, 

You may read Billingsgate or Biddy Moriarty's at- 
tack on Daniel O'Connell in the fish market in Dub- 
lin, but I tell you candidly that they are very mild 
when compared with an infuriated Roman Catholic 
priest. Further on I will give you a few samples of 
their curses, in order to show you a little more of 
this modern Sodom. Let me call your attention to 
Matt. 11. 5: 

*The poor have the gospel preached to them." 
Glory be to God, they have, but not in the Church 
of Rome. Roman Catholics have the doctrines of 
pagan Rome preached to them, but not the word of 
God. Again we find, Acts 8, 19-20, a declaration 
made by Peter himself, that ought to suffice to put 
an end to this gigantic fraud. Purgatory. Listen, 
my Roman Catholic reader: ''But Peter said to him, 
keep thy money to thyself to perish with thee, be- 
cause thou has thought that the gift of God may be 
purchased with money." Take this thought with you, 
and when you see a Douay Bible, find out for your- 
self. Let me give the chapter and verses again: 
Acts 8th chapter, 19th and 20th. Read them, then 
ask your priest if they are true. He certainly must 
answer in the affirmative. Then ask him what is 
the use of paying for the souls in Purgatory, if the 
gift of God cannot be purchased with money. You 
will also find in Rev. 22. 17: 

"And he that will, let him take of the w^ater of life 
freely." 



THE CONFESSIONAL AND PURGATORY. 39 

Oh, what a glorious offer ! He that will, let him 
take of the water of life freely, without money and 
without price. Anything contrary to this teaching 
is the work of the Devil. We find in Kph. 2. 8-9, 
the following : 

For by grace you are saved through faith, and 
that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God, not 
of works, that no man may glory. 

You see it is not by works we are saved ; espe- 
cially by works of priests, who very often are more 
sinful than ourselves. Did you ever think seriously 
upon this subject ? Admitting the existence of Pur- 
gatory, do you think it is fair or God-like for the 
poor soul who has no friends to pay for masses for 
him, to remain in torments until the morning of the 
resurrection? Is this what our loving Heavenly 
Father put us in this world for ? Oh, what did our 
dear Saviour die for ? Let the Catholic priest an- 
swer. One more Bible quotation and I am done 
with Purgatory : 

1 Peter 1. 18-19 : Knowing that you were not re- 
deemed with corruptible things as silver or gold, but 
with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb un- 
spotted and undefiled. 

Now, my dear Roman Catholic reader, I hope that 
I have proven to you clearly from your own Bible 
that Purgatory has no existence beyond the bottom- 
less purse of your priests. Therefore, I pray you 
not to allow yourselves to be any longer deceived. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE UNBLUSHING IMPUDENCE OF THE MACHINE IN 
TRYING TO DESTROY OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



THE IMMORAL CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 
PRIESTHOOD AND ITS TWO-FACED HYPOCRISY. 

Dear reader, it is not because of any trouble that 
I might have with the Roman Catholic Church that 
I make the sweeping charges against her that I am 
about to do. It is my sincere love for truth and 
justice that compels me to expose the worst ism that 
has ever cursed God's footstool. It has been the 
curse of every country that it has ever gained politi- 
cal power in, and it is the curse of this glorious Re- 
public today. My only living boy was born in this 
country. He is getting a grand education. How, 
then, can I, as a christian citizen and father, seal 
my lips and close my eyes to the damnable doctrines 
of Rome. I cannot, and if I could, I would not. 
I cannot compromise with sin of any kind. I have 
just said that the Roman Catholic Church is a curse 
to this country. You have only to consider the 
stand that this machine has taken to ruin your pub- 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 41 

lie schools. It is a notorious fact that a large num- 
ber of Roman Catholics very often ask the question, 
is it fair to condemn us all because of the hasty re- 
marks made by a few priests? This is a fair ques- 
tion, and is worthy of our most earnest considera- 
tion. In the first place, we have numberless Roman 
Catholic laymen who are far above their church, 
but they dread ex-communication, and if business 
men, they dread the "boycot." Secondly, they do 
not fully understand the Ecclsiastical Machine. To 
those, we would say, ''Brothers, we do not condemn 
you ; God forbid? We pray without ceasing for you 
that our Heavenly Father may open the eyes of your 
understanding, that you may see what a slave you 
are to those wicked, godless men, commonly called 
the Church. But I do denounce the Roman Catho- 
lic Priesthood, who are sworn to a man to destroy 
our public schools. It is not as Roman Catholics 
claim, and even weak-kneed Protestants admit, that 
only a few hot-headed priests take part in. Gentle 
reader, this is a delusion. There is not a priest in 
Christendom that would not hail the call from the 
Vatican to burn your schools, your churches, your 
homes and yourselves. This would be repeating 
history. 

It is my purpose to jDrove to you in these pages 
that she is the sworn enemy of your public schools 
and free institutions. I have before me a book 
called "Judges of Faith," compiled by father Jen- 



42 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

kins, and published by Murphy & Co. of Baltimore. 
This book and its compiler has received the special 
blessing of Cardinal Gibbons; it has the approval of 
380 of the highest dignitaries of the church of Rome; 
it has the approval of 21 plenary and provincial 
councils, six or seven Diocesan synods, two Roman 
pontiffs, two sacred congregations of some twenty 
cardinals and pontifical officials, seven single cardi- 
nals, who with thirty-three archbishops, make forty 
primates and metropolitans; finally, nearly eighty 
single bishops and archbishops deceased or living in 
the United States. Thus, you see, my dear reader, 
that it is not a matter to be laid at the door of a few 
priests. Now, let us see what this infallible book 
has to say of a school system that is the admiration 
of the world, save the old man of sin who sits on 
the Tiber. On page 10 we are told that the public 
schools are avowedly religionless, even godless insti- 
tutions, leaving out in their teachings the very foun- 
dation of Christianity ; that there is one God, and 
that he has established one true church, in which 
and by which alone, all men are to be saved that are 
saved. What blasphemy this doctrine is ! What St. 
Paul would call a doctrine of the Devil. The in- 
spired word tells us that Jesus Christ is the true 
Saviour of mankind. Mr. Jenkins tells us that the 
Roman Catholic Machine is the only way to get to 
Heaven. Wonderful revelation ! Page 14 : **Whatis 
he very reading of the Bible in our city schools but 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 43 

an attempt to pervert the hearts of our Catholic 
children, for to tell the truth, this pretended Bible 
is nothing more nor less than the edition of King 
James." Ah ! Holy Father Jenkins, this is where 
you show your weak point in your objection to hav- 
ing the Bible read in the schools. Did you, or the 
Machine of which you seem to be the safety valve, 
ask for the reading of the Douay version ? Not at 
all ; because one version paints you as black as the 
other, as I shall prove in another chapter. On page 
16 we are told that another evil following from the 
attendance of Catholic children on schools of public 
instruction, is the constant association with ill-bred, 
unbelieving and immoral companions. This '' Rev. 
Bacchus'^ must have the cheek of a '' canal horse" 
or a ^' government mule" to thus insult your sons and 
daughters here in your midst. Did I call him a Rev. 
Bacchus? Yes, I did; and no man in his sober 
senses, outside of a lunatic asylum, would make 
those charges on one page, and the following con- 
fession on the opposite page, 17. Read and think 
for yourselves. It is well, says this "Judge of 
Morals," ro confess that Catholic children are often 
the ring-leaders of the youthful scoundrels, bullies 
over their companions, and the '* terror " of neigh- 
bors. I know that they are a ^' terror." 

If you were to ask the superintendent of the Little 
Wanderers' Home when on Baldwin Place, Boston, 
he could tell you something about the Roman Cath- 



44 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

olio schoolboys of St. Mary's, under the holy guid- 
ance of Father Byrne. 

On page 32 he tells us that to eat, drink and be 
merry, to-morrow we die, is a fit escutcheon for every 
public school door. No, Mr. Jenkins, we deny this. 
There is a proper place for all things. This should 
be hung on every Roman Catholic parsonage with 
its well-stocked wine cellar and its buxom maids. 
On page 39 we are told that all free thinkers, secu- 
larists, atheists, members of the International Soci- 
ety, communists, socialists and whatever is wicked, 
perverse and impious, is on the side of the secular 
system of education. On the opposite, we have, 
says this ''Judge," the Pope, all the bishops and all 
true Christians (Roman Catholic of course). 

Yes, indeed ; Priest Jenkins has all those on his 
side, and a great many more that he has not men- 
tioned, but which I feel called upon to give to my 
readers. He has on his side the rum seller, the ma- 
jority of criminals, the prize fighters, the gamblers, 
the keepers of dance halls and houses of ill-fame ; 
he has on his side such men as Archbishop Wil- 
liams of Boston, Mass., who declares in his pam- 
phlet, sent broadcast throughout our land in 1874, 
children should be brought up in total ignorance 
rather than be educated in your godless schools. 
This pamphlet you can get at any Catholic book 
store in Boston ; it is in Latin, and its title is, 
*' De Abs.olutione Parentibus." This very bishop 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. , 45 

has been the champion of prize-fighters and gin- 
mills. 

I challenge any Roman Catholic to produce a 
copy of the Boston Pilot (Catholic), during the 
many long years that he owned it, that its pages 
were not open to the cause of both. 

Another of these precious birds was Archbishop 
Purcell, of Cincinnati, who robbed his poor dupes of 
five millions of dollars. You have on your side, Mr. 
Jenkins, such men as Father Mullen, who when on 
his way from the Propagander at Rome to take 
charge of a wealthy parish in California, on his ar- 
rival in New York got gloriously drunk and com- 
menced to paint the city "red;" but as New York is 
a Rome-ridden city, he was sent on his way unmo- 
lested. Not so when he got to Chicago ; he started 
a kind of Marquis of Waterford racket, and was 
arrested, but as he was well supplied with money it 
was all right. INIy authority for the above statement 
is the Boston Herald of June 1, 1885; by the way, 
a very good Roman Catholic paper. In fact, it is 
more Romish than the Boston Pilot. Such men as 
Father McNulty, of Malone, N. Y., who seduced his 
fair penitent, Miss McFarlane, and w^hose enraged 
parents prosecuted him, and got a verdict of two 
thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars, 
which he refused to pay. In default he was sent to 
Gaol, but the politicians closed their eyes and went 
to sleep while this holy father broke Gaol, and es- 



46 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

caped to Canada to forgive others their sins, and to 
ruin others of his fair penitents. 

Need we wonder that Roman Catholics gamble, 
swear, and do everything that is wicked when their 
archbishop here in this Athens of America deplores 
the suppression of the lotteries.'* Listen to his paper, 
the Boston Pilot, October 11, 1890": Newspaper 
readers henceforth will miss the attractive little anec- 
dotes of how a poor man was made happy by being 
the lucky holder of a $15,000 prize ticket in the 
Louisiana Lottery. The Anti-Lottery Law, lately 
passed by Congress, forbids the publication of all 
advertisements of the Lottery, or announcements of 
its drawings, thus inflicting another blow on Ameri- 
can imaginative literature.'' Poor, old man! Call 
and see your brother bishop. Distiller McQuaid, of 
Rochester, who thinks it more needful than saving 
souls to manufacture good wine to drown your sor- 
rows. His vaults have a capacity of 50,000 gallons, 
and this wine is to be used for church purposes, and 
as the people never get any of this church wine, the 
Machine must anticipate a good blow-out. Yes, in- 
deed ; and this reverend father has on his side the 
murderous Clan-aGael, the Maffia, the A. O. H., 
the Molly Maguires, all respectable associations, 
having their spiritual advisers, to whom they go to 
confession, and often go in a body to the altar to 
eat their wafer god. On the side of the Pope you 
will find such reptiles as the followiiig : I must 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 47 

lump them together, if you will pardon the phrase; 
space will not allow me to give many. From the 
Detroit Tribune, April 21, 1891 : "A modestly 
dressed young girl, not over sixteen years of age, 
appeared at the Cadillac House on Monday night, 
and asked for a room. The clerk assigned her to 
No. 77. Half an hour afterward, more or less, a 
middle aged man, clad in priestly garb, smooth 
shaven, with long blonde hair, came into the office 
and inquired if a young girl by the name of Miss 
Scott had secured a room for the night. He was 
told that she had, and he also asked for a room, 
and was assigned to room 66. The clerk was sus- 
picious of the couple, and at about 10.30 the night 
watchman was sent with a skeleton key to Miss 
Scott's room, and as was expected, found that she 
was not there. Upon the dresser was her hat, her 
wrap and rosary, the inseparable companion of a 
devout Catholic maid. He reported his discovery 
at the office, and was ordered to go at once to room 
66 upon a similar tour of investigation. Here his 
searches were rewarded by evidences of the fact that 
all was not as it should be, as he found Miss Scott 
there locked in with the priestly O'Connor. The 
priest was bounced into the street, offering as an ex- 
cuse for his rascality, that 'the girl was afraid to 
sleep alone, and came to me for company.' The 
priest hailed from Mount Clemence, Mich." 

On the night of November 4th, 1890, Kev. Father 



48 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

R. A. Finnerty, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church, 
of Dayton, O., took a handsome young woman, to 
whom he made love in the confessional, across 
to Richmond, Ind., and registered as R. A. 
Renmer and wife, at the Arlington Hotel. After- 
ward he went down stairs and was recognized by 
two men, one of whom notified the trustees of the 
Sacred Heart Church. He was asked for an expla- 
nation which he refused to give. 

Another precious pet was the Rev. Father John E. 
O'Sullivan, who, on the 25th of June, 1886, was 
found guilty by a jury at Syracuse, N. Y., of criminal 
assault on Abbie O'Connor at the Catholic parson- 
age in Camillus, in May, 1884. The trial lasted 
three days, and excited great interest in Catholic 
and other circles. The evidence was of a sensa- 
tional character. Judge Kennedy sentenced him to 
11 years in Auburn Prison. 

A Terrible Trap : — Father Bruzza's bogus or- 
phanage at Leghorn. By cable to the Boston Her- 
ald. London, Aug. 1, 1885 : 

The name of the Catholic Priest recently arrested 
at Leghorn for enticing young girls to ruin by means 
of a pretended orphanage, is Bruzza. He called his 
institution the Asylum of San Fillipo de Neri, and ap- 
parently repentant Magdalenes were enrolled as 
sisters of charity in the service of the house. When 
the police entered the place, by breaking in the 
doors, they found 20 little girls held in captivity, one 
of them about to become another. The bogus sis- 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 49 

ters of charity secured clients, and also made new 
victims while going about the city soliciting alms. 
The chief patrons of the place were rich Jews. 
Father Bruzza, who is now in a cell in the Municipal 
prison, vigorously denies the charge, but the evidence 
against him is overwhelming. The Mother Superior- 
ess of the institution fled from the city, but was 
subsequently arrested, and many other arrests are 
expected. 

My dear Father in Heaven, how long will the 
American people tolerate similar institutions in 
our midst. American readers, you have been told 
by Maria Monks, Edith O'Gorman, and others, 
that you have those very hells in your midst, yet 
your poHticians make laws to protect those institu- 
tions. Shame upon them. The most disgusting and 
revolting sights that I ever saw I saw in Roman 
Catholic institutions when a boy. 

Violated His Vows on the 13th of October, 
1886. Rev. Fr. Lawren R Murphy, of Cleveland, O., 
a priest of good address, was arrested by officer Mc- 
Cusker, of Station 1, for the larceny of a second hand 
coat valued at $3, from Lewis Richmond, at No. 40 
Salem St., Boston. Father Murphy picked up the 
coat and started to walk out when the owner's back 
was turned. At the Station House he acknowledged 
that he had been on an extended spree, and had been 
drinking hard. He said also, when asked to account 
for a sacque in his possession, that he stopped with 
a strange woman at the Boston Hotel last night, and 
that she beat him out of $10, and to get ''square" 
with her he took her gossamer and sacque. 



50 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

Oh, what a monster to be able to forgive sins. 
You can find the above on file in Room 35, Boston 
Herald, if you wish to call. 

Fr. Hickey Charged with Theft and For- 
gery : — Money taken from a -woman thought to be 
dying. She finally recovers to find herself in pov- 
erty. Special despatch to the Boston Herald. New 
York, Nov. 18, 1886. 

Fr. Patrick C. Hickey, assistant pastor of the Ro- 
man Catholic Church of the Epiphany, is accused 
by Mrs. Mary Sheridan of theft and forgery. Fear- 
ing that she was on the point of death, Mrs. Sheri- 
dan, who is 7.4 years old, sent for Fr. Hickey. After 
attending to her spiritual welfare, she says he asked 
her if she had any money. She had $745 under her 
pillow, and he induced her to let him have it to in- 
sure its safety. If she recovered, he would return 
the money intact, and if she died, he would pay her 
funeral expenses. The priest then put his hand 
under the pillow, she says, and abstracted the money. 
At the same time, she says, he took her bank books, 
one on the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, repre- 
senting ^3052.50, and the other on the Bowery Sav- 
ings Bank, where she had $1104.66. Mrs. Sheridan 
recovered from her illness, and found that her bank 
books were gone. She went to see Fr. Hickey, and 
accused him of the theft. He admitted that he 
had taken the books, and promised to return them. 
At the same time he gave her $200 out of the $745, 
and said that the balance would be returned in a few 
days. As he failed to keep his promise, she began 
an investigation, and discovered that the priest had 
drawn all her money from the banks in drafts, pur- 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 51 

porting to have been signed by her. She has brought 
suit to recover. Fr. Hickey for over a week has been 
an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, v^rhere he is 
under treatment for a serious disease (a serious dis- 
ease). An operation was performed upon him twQ 
days ago, and he is not allowed to see anybody. 
We will draw the mantle of charity over him, and 
will not comment upon his serious disease. 

The indifference of the American people to the 
encroachment of this system is simply appalling. 
An institution whose sole aim is to get control of 
this country, peaceably through her politicians, if she 
can ; but if this fails, as sure as there is a God in 
Heaven, the Machine will try force. Dear reader, 
you may be one of those who may laugh at the idea, 
or who may shout nonsense; to such I must say, not so 
fast. Listen to what Father Jenkins declares on page 
47: ''The church of Rome has, all over the world, 
twenty millions of Irishmen who stand united in in- 
vincible battle array, but waiting the word of com- 
mand from their spiritual chiefs to fight the good 
fight for their own and their children's souls." With 
such confessions as those before us^ who will dare to 
say that a Roman Catholic can be a true citizen ? 
Let me tell you that all of the Roman Catholic mili- 
tary organizations have no other object in view. I 
speak from experience, as I have been one of them 
for many years. 

Quoting from the late Bishop of Covington, he 
says, '*The public schools are infidel and godless, 



52 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

and must, therefore, be avoided. A show of reli- 
gion is indeed kept, up in them by a reading of the 
Bible, but this does not and cannot meet the require- 
ments of the chief and only end for which man is 
created. To be convinced of the impotency for 
good of such reading, reflect for a moment upon the 
sad state of religion outside of the Roman Catholic 
church, the lamentable ignorance of the most sa- 
cred duties and responsibilities, the wide-spread skep- 
ticism and indifference, the consequent disappear- 
ance of honesty and integrity, and the fearful in- 
crease of irreligion and immorality among all classes 
of society (except the Roman Catholics)." The 
best way to refute this malignant, dastardly attack, 
is to give some statistics that will show the rotten 
tree in her true colors. 

Interesting" StatisticSv 

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ROMANISM FOR THE CRIMES 
OF THE WORLD. 

[J. B. Huriburt, Ottawa.] 

The various quotations from popes, archbishops, 
bishops and priests, asserting that the pubhc schools 
are "nurseries of crime," '^ the scandals of which 
they are the scene, making the blood curdie in your 
veins ; " "a scandal grossly and monstrously im- 
moral," " a blot," '' a blemish," '' a disgrace on the 
country;" ''seminaries of infidelity and fruitful 
sources of immorality; " " the children of the public 
schools turn out to be learned horse thieves, scho- 
lastic counterfeiters," etc., are in strange contrast to 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 53 

the Statistics of crime. In Ontario the criminal sta- 
tistics for 1889, pp. 8-10, give the following : 

Prisoners committed : 

Roman Catholics, 4,544, 1 in 70 Roman Catholics. 

Church of England, 3,876. 1 in 94. 

Presbyterians, 1,610, 1 in 254. 

Methodists, 1,682, 1 in 350. 

Here we have one committed for crime in 70 of 
the Roman Catholic population ; one in 94 Church 
of England ; one in 254 of the Presbyterians, and 
one in 350 of the Methodists. The Jews and the 
Lutherans make the study of the Bible a part of the 
education of their children, and they have fewer 
criminals, I believe, "than any other class. 

The committals in 1889 to the Central prison 
(Ontario), were 242 Church of England in a popu- 
lation of 366,539 ; 263 Roman Catholics in a popu- 
lation of 320,000 (in this number were over 100,000 
French, of whom very few were committed) ; 87 
Presbyterians in a population of 417,747; and 100 
Methodists in a population of nearly 600,000. 

The parliamentary reports for Ireland, 1881, give 
six-sevenths of the criminals to the Roman Catho- 
lics ; especially is this disparity seen in the case of 
children. In the industrial and reformatory schools 
in Ireland in 1833, there were 6,135 Roman Catho- 
lics and only 948 Protestants. 

From the Almanico Populare of Turin we take 
these statistics : In England, one murder in 178,000 
people; in Catholic Spain, one in 4,113; in the 
Roman States, one in 780, or 237 limes as many 
murders in the Catholic Roman States as in Eng- 
land in proportion to population. A late chap- 
lain of the State Prison in Massachusetts stated, 
that of 560 convicts there, 400 were Roman Catho- 



54 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

lies, chiefly Irish ; more than five times their due 
proportion ; of 250 women convicts at Sherburne, 
seven-tenths were Roman Catholics ; at Deer Island 
75 per cent, j at Cambridge House of Correction 90 
per cent, were foreigners, nearly all of whom were 
Roman Catholics. 

^^ The legitimate children in London were 24f to 
one illegitimate ; in Paris 2 1-19 to one illegitimate ; 
in Vienna one legitimate to 1 1-6 illegitimate; in 
Rome one legitimate to 2 2-3 illegitimate." (Al- 
manico Populare, Turin.) Rome, therefore, as re- 
gards illegitimacy, is six times worse than Paris, and 
sixty-six times worse than London, and worse 
than pagan Rome. But then Rome is the city of 
Jesuit priests, whose teachings on the seventh, as 
on the other commandments, have scandalized 
Christendom. Give us, they say, the children of 
the present generation and the next shall be ours, 
ours in soul and body. They compass sea and land 
to make one proselyte, and when they have made 
him, he is four-fold more the child of hell than be- 
fore. 

Fig-ures Tell the Tale. 

AS IN SAN FRANCISCO, SO IN BOSTON AND ELSE- 
WHERE. 

[San Francisco Argonaut.] 

We have received from John Foley, superintendent 
of the House of Correction, his report for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1890. During the fiscal year 
the House of Correction has admitted 1,259 mem- 
bers, who, in their respective creeds, are divided as 
follows : Roman Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, un- 
believer and Pagan. Of this number there are 830 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 55 

Roman Catholics, and of the remainder, embracing 
all religions — Pagan and unbelievers — there are 
429. These figures, under the manipulation of a 
member of the Roman Catholic Church, are very 
significant, and worthy the consideration of all intel- 
liij:ent citizens who are interested in the vouth of our 
city. Those of our respectable fellow-citizens of the 
Romish Church would do well to consider whether the 
parochial system o^ education produces results as 
satisfactory as the non-sectarian free school system. 
If education in the godless schools supplies, out of 
all denominations and faiths, only one-third as many 
criminals as does education in church schools, it 
would be well to inquire whether the church schools 
should not be suppressed by law, and the parents and 
guardians of children should not be compelled to 
send them to the public schools for education. We 
have estimated that the Roman Catholic population of 
San Francisco is twenty per cent, of the entire popu- 
lation. The criminal statistics, as indicated by the 
report of the House of Correction, show about sixty 
per cent, of juvenile crime in an entire pouulation of 
over 300,000 people. Less than thirty-three per 
cent, of these people are Roman Catholics. It is a 
question of mental arithmetic to determine whether 
it is well that the youth of this community should be 
instructed by priests and nuns of the Romish 
Church. 

Allow me to give yuu a few extracts from a pas 
toral letter of the late archbishop Perche, of New 
Orleans. It is very plain talk. 

''Our public school system as organized in this 
state, is erophatically a social plague. It is no 
system of education at all, but the simple and 



56 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

direct negation of such, since it excludes all 
creeds, without which education, as we have defined 
it, is impossible. The public school system is not 
imperfect only, it is also vicious; not only defective, 
but radically mischievous. Its eflEects upon re- 
ligion (Roman Catholic Religion, of course), are 
most disastrous." 

This bishop warns his people that they must shun 
these pest holes. He says "it would make the very 
blood curdle in your veins to hear of the scandals 
that are perpetrated in the public schools." 

Ah, lying Rome, we know you, and know that the 
truth is not known by you. The public schools, 
like all other institutions in this country, will bear 
the light of investigation. How is it with your nun- 
neries? Can you tell us of a public school where 
they keep a quick lime vat. Respect for my readers 
prevents my giving you some startling facts, but I will 
simply remind you of the case of Fr. Buzza just 
given in this chapter, page 99. 

Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, Wis., says, "We 
grieve in our inmost heart when we look upon the 
children growing up in our diocese, for far the 
greater number of them are without any school, or 
go to the public schools, where so many of them im- 
bibe in their tender souls the poisonous germs of in- 
fidelity and immorality." 

Not so fast, Mr. archbishop ; was it immorality or 
christian inspiration that caused Father Walsh to 
try to drug Edith O'Gorman behind the holy altar, 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 57 

and in the presence of your hand-made god, that he 
might accomplish his hellish purpose. 

Page 100, Bishop Vertin, of Marquette, Mich., has 
said," From schools without religion, schools which 
necessarily lead to all social and religious disorders, 
deliver us, O Lord ! Are you Catholics ? Come 
over to me, send your children to Catholic schools. 
Are you not Catholics ? Then go away about your 
business. We want no such scabby sheep to infest 
the flock of Christ. On page 105 the compiler gives 
us a dose of his ''Blatant Blarney." Dear reader, 
give this careful consideration. *'These ignorant 
masses^ who, in the common schools, have been 
through the Fourth Reader, know nothing, not even 
their own ignorance. Take the first boy whom you 
meet, 14 or 15 years old, fresh from the common 
school, and his ignorance of all real knowledge will 
surprise you." I dare not trust my pen to comment 
upon the above statements, but will simply say that 
the bachelor priest who uses the language that he 
does on page 109, must indeed be a depraved brute. 
Dear reader, it is the firm belief of the Machine that 
the female teacher of our public schools (Roman 
Catholics excepted), are the mistresses of our School 
Board, as publicly declared a few years ago by Fr. 
Sculley, of Cambridge, Mass. 

Hear what the great "wine-maker," Bishop 
McQuade, has to say, page 118. **It is absurd to say 
that one bishop more than another insists upon the 



58 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

establishment of Catholic schools. It is not left 
with bishops to choose in this matter. They receive 
commands from an authority higher than their own/' 
(This authority is the Pope.) Yes, dear reader, that 
command comes from the Vatican, and cardinals, 
bishops and priests must obey. This will confirm 
what I have said in the opening of this chapter, 
that it is not a matter of a few hot-headed priests. 
They have nothing to do but obey. Therefore, I 
say, without fear of contradiction, that when a bishop 
or priest tells you that he favors your public schools, 
he lies, and he knows it. 

Pope Pius IX used these words : 

^'The people are not the source of civil power. 
The Roman Catholic Church and her Ecclesiastics 
have a right to immunity from civil law. Education, 
outside the control of the Roman Catholic Church, 
is a damnable heresy." 

There you have the whole thing in a nutshell. Your 
education is a damnable heresy. The Romish Church 
claims the right to exercise its authority without hav- 
ing any limit set to it by the civil power, and your 
law-makers dare not dispute the ground with them. 

The Romish Church claims the right to interfere 
in the discipline of the public schools, and in the 
arrangement of their studies, and in the choice of 
their teachers, and the School Board of Puritan 
Boston says, amen. Shame, a thousand times shame 
upon such pusillanimity. 

Cardinal Gibbons says that with the increase of 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 59 

public schools comes an increase in public crimes, 
chiefly committed by those educated scoundrels, 
and the only remedy is in establishing Parochial 
schools. Mr. Cardinal Gibbons, you are indeed very 
ignorant of the general state of affairs. If you 
should see this, I most respectfully ask you to call 
and see your dear children in our various penal in-' 
stitutions. Go to some police court on a fine Mon- 
day morning, and see who those are that spent the 
Lord's Day drinking, gambling and fighting, selling 
rum and running dance halls and houses of ill-fame. 
You will perhaps learn that a great many of those 
had been to confession the previous Saturday night, 
and that many of them had for their Sunday morn- 
ing breakfast your hand-made god. Verily, this is 
a wonderful deception. 

Page 125, the lamented Archbishop Spaulding 
says : 

"Yes, we can no longer deny it, the great defect, 
the gnawing canker, the blighting curse of our 
educational system, is the absence from it of a whole- 
some religious instruction '' (instructions, of course, 
by the priests and nuns, such as that the priest can for- 
give sins, and that none but those who go to confession 
can be saved. That young girls must listen to the 
filthy questions put them by the priest.) 

Ah, my dear reader, the Roman Machine is, and 
always has been, the sworn enemy of free institu- 
tions. That great statesman and patriot, the late 
Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, in 



60 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

his admirable work, the 'Tapacy and the Civil 
Power," says : 

"Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of 
the Church of Rome prevailed here, our Constitu- 
tion would necessarily fall. The two cannot exist 
together. They are in open and direct antagonism 
with the fundamental theory of our government, and 
of all popular governments everywhere." 

The eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, speaking 
of his own Church of Rome, said, in 1869 : 

**There is not a single progressive principle that 
has not been cursed by the Catholic Church." 

This is true of England and Germany, as well as 
all Catholic countries. The Church cursed the 
French Revolution, the Belgian Constitution, and 
the Italian Independence. Not a Constitution has 
been born, not a step of progress made, not a soli- 
tary reform effected which has not been under the 
terrific Anathemas of the Church. 

Heresy the church endures when and where she 
must, but she hates it, and directs all her energies 
to destroy it. If Catholics ever gain a sufficient nu- 
merical majority in this country, religious freedom 
is at an end ; so says the shepherd of the valley^ the 
official mouthpiece of the bishop of St. Louis. This 
is a true expose of the arch hypocrite, the church of 
Rome. 

*'The Catholic church is the medium and chan- 
nel through which the will of God is expressed ; 
while the State has rights, she has them only in vir- 



ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD. 61 

tue and by permission of the superior authority, and 
that authority can be expressed only through the 
cYiMXohr— Catholic World, Jul^, 1870. 

"Protestantism has not, and never can have, any 
right where Catholicity has triumphed. Therefore, 
we lose the breath we expend in declaiming against 
bigotry and intolerance, and in favor of religious 
liberty, or the right of man to be of any religion as 
best pleases him." — Catholic Review, June, 1865. 

"In 1900 Rome will have this country and keep it. 
All legislation must be governed by the will of God, 
indicated by the Pope. Education must be con- 
trolled by Catholic authority ; the secular arm and 
the press must be under the authority of the church, 
even to war and bloodshed." — Fr. Hecker^s Catholic, 
July, 1870. 

Priest Hecker makes this statement because he 
knows that in addition to the 20,000,000 of fighting 
Irishmen, he has the French Catholics, the Ger- 
mans and the bloodthirsty Italians drilled fur this 
purpose. 

If children are educated in our public schools, 
they cannot and will not b.elieve in the asinine 
theology of Rome. They will not believe that the 
priest can put horns on them, nor that wearing two 
dirty pieces of cloth around their necks will keep 
them from harm. In closing this chapter, let me 
tell you that no Protestant in this country can afford 
longer to remain indifferent to the encroachments of 
Roman Catholicism. Read again the bloody pages 
of the inquisition. The blood of a million of mar- 



62 OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

tyrs cries aloud in heaven for you to awake. The 
sleeping dust of your fathers pleads with all the 
deep pathos of outraged humanity for you to awake. 
Every principle dear to a free American people is in 
danger, and little as you think of it, already the 
thongs are being fastened round your hands, and 
when it is too late you will realize it. Awake, 
awake ! free men of America. Arise in your 
might and declare, God helping you, that Rome 
shall never, no never, rule Americans. May our 
Heavenly Father and the ever dear Jesus grant it, is 
my earnest prayer. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ITS SUPERSTITIONS, ITS 

ESTIMATE OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, THE 

CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR BIBLE. 

Christian reader, a church without a Bible I 
know will sound very strange to you. In such a 
church I was born, baptized, confirmed, absolved 
from all my sins, had the blessed privilege upon 
various occasions of eating the God of that church. 
In that church I was married, and in that church 
my only living child was baptized. I have told 
you already why I left that chucrh. 

The Roman Catholic Church does not use the 
Bible ; first, because they do not believe in it ; sec- 
ondly, because it would ruin their business, for be 
it understood, the church of Rome is run upon 
strictly business principles, no credit. If you want 
any of their goods you must pay cash down, or down 
you go to Purgatory or some hotter region. They 
have in the church of Rome lots of theology but no 
Bible. I here challenge any Roman Catholic 



64 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A lilBLE. 

bishop, priest or layman, to refute this statement. 
Does the Roman Catholic believe in the Bible ? I 
answer, most emphatically, she does not. Supposing 
you had an authentic, scientific work, or a history 
written by an author of unblemished reputation, is it 
reasonable to think that you would forbid your fam- 
ily reading those books ? Certainly you would not ; 
and if you did they would be justified in telling you 
that you were a proper representative of the '* first 
of April.'' The law of the southern states forbade 
the education of the slaves. Why? Simply because 
an educated slave would make a poor piece of prop- 
erty. So it is with the Roman Catholic Machine in 
forbidding her dupes to read the Bible. They would 
be useless Roman Catholics if we could get them to 
read God's word. Rome dreads the Bible, and it is 
no wonder to me that she does. I declare that I 
have never read anything that painted the Roman 
Catholic Church blacker than the Douay Bible (R. 
C. Version). From this version I take all my quo- 
tations. Should any Roman Catholic read this, I 
beseech you in the name of the living God, and for 
the sake of your immortal soul, to read his blessed 
word. Let no man deprive you of this blessed privi- 
lege. 

It is my purpose to prove to you that the Roman 
Catholic Church does not believe in the Bible. I 
will only call your attention to one passage of the 
Old Testament, for the very simple reason that 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 65 

the Roman Catholics claim that Christ dispensed 
with the old law, and that we are now living under 
a new dispensation, but as this is of such importance 
to us all, Roman Catholics included, I feel con- 
strained to submit it to your consideration. I refer 
you to the ten commandments to be found in the 
20th chapter of Exodus. Let me call your attention 
to the 4th verse. 

Thou shalt not make to thyself^ a graven thing, 
nor the likeness of anything that's in Heaven above, 
or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that 
are in the water under the earth. 

If the Roman Catholics believe this, how can they 
bend their knees, and make the sign of the cross in 
our public streets when passing one of their joss 
houses (called churches). The Bible is a hidden 
book in the Church of Rome. 

I find in Matt. 13. 55-56, the following plain 
statement : 

"Is not this the carpenter's son ? Is not his 
mother called Mary, and his brethren James and 
Joseph, and Simon and Jude, and his sisters, are 
they not with us.^ Whence therefore hath he all 
these things ?" 

How can any Roman Catholic reconcile those 
Bible facts with their teachings in reference to the 
Mother of the man Chris: Jesus, to wit, that she 
never had any other children but Jesus. 

Mark 13. 21 : *'And then if any man shall say to 
you, Lo, here is Christ, Lo, he is there, do not be- 
lieve.'' 



66 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A lilBLE. 

Does the Roman Catholic priest believe this when 
he holds between his fingers the wafer, and declares 
that it is the very Christ Jesus that died for perish- 
ing sinners. Wonderful man ! A Roman Catholic 
priest that can carry a score of full grown gods in 
his pants pocket in defiance of the solemn declara- 
tion that there be no gods that are made with hands. 
At his last supper our blessed Saviour took bread 
and wine and blessed them. Does the priest do 
this ? Most certainly not ; the wine is too good for 
poor Pat and Bridget. He does here as in all other 
cases, he eats the oysters and gives them the shells, 
*' World of wonders, I can say no less.^' 

Luke 1. 46-47: And Mary said, "My soul doth 
magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in 
God my Saviour.'' 

If they believe this, why teach that Mary was born 
without sin. 

John 5. 39 : Search the Scriptures for you think 
in them to have life everlasting, and the same are 
they that give testimony of me. 

Don't touch it says the infallible Pope, or you will 
be damned. The Bible has been condemned by the 
following bulls from Rome : By Gregory IX., 1229 ; 
Gregory XIL, 1824; Pius VIIL, 1829; Gregory X\ L, 
1832 and 1844. Pius IX., in one of his infallible 
bulls, declares the Bible a heretical book, by which 
the faithful are damned if they read it. I ask, who 
will dare to say that the Roman Catholic Machine 
believes in the inspired word of God } 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 67 

Acts 8. 20: ''But Peter said to him (Simon), 
keep thy money to thyself to perish with thee, be- 
cause thou hast thought that the gift of God may be 
purchased with money." 

It seems to me that this passage of Scripture 
alone ought to be sufficient to knock the bottom 
clean out of Purgatory, if we had no further proof. 

Acts 10. 26 : But Peter lifted him (Cornelius) up, 
saying, *' Arise, I myself also am a man." 

Dear reader, do you think that the pretended fol- 
lowers of Peter would make this manly declaration ? 
No indeed. If you should ever call and see his 
royal highness and get down three times upon your 
knees, he may allow you to kiss his toe. 

Acts 17. 11 : Now these were more noble than 
those in Thessalonica, who received the word with 
all eagerness, daily searching the Scriptures whether 
these things were so. 

Roman Catholic brother and sister, this is what 
I want you to do, search and see for yourselves. 

Rom. 3. 23 : For all have sinned and do need the 
glory of God. 

This includes the Pope as much, or perhaps more, 
than you or I, but the Machine says this is mere 
'' bosh ; " hence the infallibility of the Pope. 

1 Tim. 2. 5 : For there is one God and one medi- 
ator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 

Where, O where is there any room for the Virgin 
Mary and all the saints, the departed rumsellers and 
gamblers included.^ Understand, my dear reader, 
that it is one of the fundamental teachings of Rome, 



68 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

t±at after our friends pass from Purgatory to 
Heaven, that they make intercession for their friends 
who may still be in the whiskey business. I am 
afraid that their Heaven is like their church, a 
whiskey Heaven. Oh! may the living God open 
their eyes that they may see. 

ITim. 3. 1-5 : A faithful saying, if a man desire 
the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. It 
behooveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the 
husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good be- 
havior, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, not 
given to wine, no strikerj but modest, not quarrel- 
some not covetous, but one that ruleth well his own 
house, having his children in subjection with all 
chastity. But if a man know not how to rule his 
own house, how shall he take care of the church of 
God." 

Could anything be plainer than this? Dear 
reader, if the Roman Catholic Machine believed the 
inspired word of God, and had a married ministry, 
there would be no use for nunneries, there would be 
no need of kicking them out of hotels from the fond 
embrace of their penitents, as I have already told you. 
Truly, that man of God, St, Paul, knew that those 
things should come to pass when he said that to 
forbid marriage was a doctrine of the devil, and I 
most fearlessly say that the Church of Rome is a 
curse. If not, what is the matter with my native 
land. The north of Ireland is happy and contented; 
not so with the other three provinces. You never 
see the hat going around for Scotland and Wales. 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 69 

"How is this ? Simply because the Protestant people 
are not plundered by those highwaymen, the Roman 
Catholic priests, under the very false pretence of get- 
ting their dear ones out of Purgatory. I think that 
a little lynch law would be a god-send to those poor 
benighted dupes. 

Garibaldi, said : ''The Bible is the cannon that 
will open Italy to us.'* 

I believe as he did, that the Bible is the only can- 
non that will ever free Ireland. If Roman Catho- 
lics were to read the Bible, it would be impos- 
sible for the Machine to make them believe the 
idiotic things that they do believe. Volumes might 
be written upon this subject from the ^^Glories of 
Mary/' "The Legends of Mary," and other books 
before me, but I will only give you one, this you can 
find in any Roman Catholic Prayer Book; the Agnus 
Dei, in English the lamb of God, so called from 
the image stamped upon it, is a small cake of purest 
white wax, solemnly blessed by the Pope. In Easter 
week, beginning with prayer, he dips it in holy 
water, mingled, for the purpose, w4th holy balsam 
and holy chrism, and then beseeches once more the 
Almighty to bless, consecrate and sanctify this oflEer- 
ing, so as to render it a source of graces to all those 
who shall use it in the spirit of faith and piety. These 
particular graces are chiefly the following : 

1. A devout remembrance of our redemption 
through the lamb of God on beholding and touch- 
ing the waxen image, so that a lively sense of grati- 



70 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

tude shall prompt us to bless, venerate and love the 
divine goodness, firmly hoping therefrom forgive- 
ness of sins, and spotlessness of conscience. 2. Pro- 
tection against the open and secret attacks of the 
enemies of soul and body. 3. Preservation from 
public and private calamities, disasters and acci- 
dents, from contagious and violent diseases, and 
also from a sudden and unprovided death. 4. Safety 
during pregnancy, and a happy childbirth. 

Who would be without such a safeguard? I have 
two or three of those precious lambs in my vest 
pocket. But to be serious, my dear reader, the poor 
blind-folded Roman Catholics believe, first, that the 
Pope blesses those himself. I have just transcribed 
it word for word from the Roman Catholic Prayer 
Book, therefore, you see he blesses every ^^Agnus Dei" 
separately. Now, then, those are used by the mil- 
lions yearly, no matter how short the prayer may be. 
It does not take an Euclid nor a Newton to see the 
gigantic fraud. Think of it, one man, in one week, 
going through millions of such mummeries, and 
secondly, their efficacy. Here comes the great mis- 
take, because, instead of putting their faith in God, 
they put it in those dirty rags around their necks. 
Doctor Cronin, whom th^ saintly Cian-a-Gael butch- 
ered in Chicago, had one of them around his neck. 
Poor fellow, he might as well have had an onion 
peel. 

There is a very long word in the Papal Vocabu- 
lary, and that is excommunication. Now, I chal- 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 71 

lenge the Pope and his legion of bishops and priests 
to give me one instance wherein any man or woman 
has ever been excommunicated because of their 
morals. Is it because of his morals that they have 
excommunicated Dr. McGlynn? Certainly not, but 
simply because he dared to assert his rights as 
an American citizen. If he should die with this 
anathema upon him there is not a Roman Catholic 
Church in Christendom will allow his remains to be 
brought inside of its fence, nor would he be allowed 
a Christian (very unchristian) burial in their conse- 
crated grounds. Not so with the murderer, the 
prize fighter, the gambler and the keepers of houses 
of ill-fame. Obedience and money, not morals, is 
what the Machine wants, and they get it nearly every 
time. It may be well to prove the above statement. 

A few years ago there was a dive run between 
Merrimac and Portland Streets, Boston, Mass. This 
machine shop of the devil was run by the notorious 
Jimmy Keenan. He ran his dive night and day, 
license or no license, in defiance of the law of God, 
and the law of the land. Nevertheless, when he 
died he had a saintly burial. Why.? Because his 
purse was always open to the priest. 

Another instance is that of the prize-fighter Paddy 
Duffy, who died July, 1890. His remains were tak- 
en to St. Mary's Church, where the Rev. Fr. Scan- 
Ion not only gave him a pass to Purgatory, but ac- 
tually sprinkled with his holy water a pair of floral 
boxing gloves upon the coffin. And yet we meet 



72 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

with ministers who say that this is a branch of the 
Christian church. May God help such ministerial 
quacks. 

In the church of Rome, if you are obedient to the 
priest and free with your money, your morals may 
be as black as charcoal and you be a member of the 
same. Build up the church by any and all means 
says the Machine. Did you ever think of it, Chris- 
tian reader, that the church of Rome has the names 
of numberless thousands of your children upon its 
list? Did you think when you allowed your child to 
be taken by its Roman Catholic nurse, that she had 
it baptized by the priest ? Allow me to tell you that 
in eight cases out of ten this is the sad result, 
"Bring in the young heretics," says the priest, and 
the girls dare not disobey. Yes, baptized by the 
priests of the blackest idolatry that ever cursed the 
human mind. 

The Egyptians worship crocodiles and calves ; the 
Greeks made their gods of marble or gold ; the Per- 
sian made the sun his god; the Hottentots make 
their gods with whalebone, and go far through the 
storm to adore them ; the church of Rome makes 
her god of a wafer and eats him. This is the worst 
kind of Cannibalism, and it is also base ingratitude. 
Think of a man eating his dearest friend, and then 
you have transubstantiation in a nutshell. 

Dear reader, did you ever think that Roman 
Catholics wear social masks? 1 propose to prove to 
you that they do, especially the priests. I am satis- 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 73 

fied that when you are through reading this chapter 
that you will agree with me if I say that they are the 
most two-faced hypocrites on God's foot-stool. If 
you live in their midst they are very nice when they 
meet you, especially so if they are begging to build 
a joss house in your midst. The priest sometimes 
sends to the Press an article that is grandly white- 
washed, praising some Protestant, or shouting *'Let 
us live in peace." In fact, nearly all her articles in 
the public press are very liberal, and alas, the press 
gives her all the space she wants. If the Pope has 
a pain in his big toe, the papers are full of the sad 
news. If a bishop or priest is celebrating an anni- 
versary the press is full of it, and if John L. Sullivan 
is sober for a few days the glad news is sent abroad, 
to the exclusion of Protestant information; but you 
see they have a political *'pulU" and that settles it. 
I beseech you to read this, the closing part of this 
chapter, carefully. Here is a piece of venom from 
the Romish paper edited by Fr. Phelan, of St- 
Louis, the Western Watchmsm : 

'*We can silence infidelity and heresy in our day, 
and in this country, and the means and opportunities 
of doing so were never so abundant, for never were 
infidels and heretics so hollow and vulnerable. 
Protestantism lives in this country by the mere force 
of jaw and the cheapness of printer's ink. It is 
high time we were planting our batteries so that they 
may play upon their flimsy entrenchments and tissue 
paper forts. The people are tired listening to the 
clatter of these predictorial guinea hens, and they 



74 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

are anxious for a change of subject and treatment 
for the purpose of leavening the lump of Protestant 
ignorance so sedulously guarded from intelligent 
fermentation by the parsons. The Catholic Periodi- 
cal Press has been called into existence;" we are 
also informed by his *' Reverence," "of the real 
charity of Romanism towards Protestantism. We 
would draw and quarter Protestantism ; we would 
impale it and hang it up for crows' nests ; we would 
tear it with pincers and fire it with hot irons; we 
would fill it with molten lead and sink it into Hell- 
fire a hundred fathoms deep." 

This is not very neighborly love, but it is the love 
of Rome for Heretics. Listen to the Douay Bible 
(R. C. Version) : 

John 10. 1 : Amen, amen ; I say unto you, he 
that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but 
climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a 
robber. 

We have the following foot note from Dr. Troy's 
Bible, as an explanation of the above passage : 

" All Protestant clergy are thieves, murderers and 
ministers of the Devil ; leaders of rebellion against 
the lawful authority of Catholic priests ; they are en- 
gaged in a damnable revolt against the priests of 
God's church, which revolt is the bane of our day 
and country, and they should be put to death." 

We have from the same authority, that is to say 
the Bible, the following foot notes : 

Romans 10. 15 : All Protestant ministers are 
usurpers ; none of them sent by God, but by their 
father, the Devil. 

Acts 10. 35 : All Protestants are of their father, 
the Devil. 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. /O 

This is very plain talk, still plainer further on. 
Bigotry is a word used very freely by Roman Catho- 
lics. I ask any reasonable person, who are the 
bigots ? Frequently we hear of a Methodist, a Bap- 
tist, a Presbyterian, a Congregation alist or some 
other Christian when they die, if they are wealthy, 
they bequeath a portion of their wealth to some pub- 
lic institution irrespective of creed ; will some Ro- 
man Catholic give a single instance of any Roman 
Catholic giving a cent to any such institution ? No, 
dear reader, it all goes to the Roman Catholic 
churches, nunneries or colleges. This has become 
such a glowing fact, that recently the question has 
been asked by a Roman Catholic priest in the ''Pas- 
tor," a Roman Catholic magazine having ecclesias- 
tical sanction. In one number of this magazine, the 
question is discussed as to the ungraciousness of 
Romanists refusing to help any Protestant charity, 
when Romanists are constantly asking and obtain- 
ing liberal help from Protestants. The editor set- 
tles the question. He says : 

*' Protestants hold that you may be saved in any 
church ; we hold that you must belong to the Ro- 
man Catholic Church in order to be saved. So the 
matter resolves itself into this : Protestants will be 
damned anyhow, and we may as well get all we can 
out of them in this world, but we cannot give them 
anything to help a religion which we declare is so 
absolutely false that those who believe it can never 
be saved. 

Rome is the most inconsistent organization the 



/b THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

world has ever known. Did you ever hear a Roman 
Catholic priest giving a temperance lecture who was 
himself soaked with whiskey ? I have. Does the 
following few facts taken from many at our com- 
mand support them in their deception? I call upon you 
to judge. I challenge any Roman Catholic to pro- 
duce a single copy of the Boston Pilot during the fif- 
teen years or more that his grace Archbishop Williams 
owned it, that did not give the rum business its sup- 
port in its pages. Upon the 19th of July, 1890, 
George Goldfuss got judgment against Father 
Leighelach of the St. Benedict German Roman 
Catholic Church of New York, for two hundred and 
forty-two dollars for a rum-shop he sold him at 72 
Central Ave., and put his father in the business. Ex- 
cuse my using the word ^^ business " coupled with a 
rum-shop, when I believe that a rum-shop is no more 
a place of business than a den of rattlesnakes. I 
own a small book that I value very much ; it is en- 
titled, '' Our Faith j What Roman Catholics Be- 
lieve," compiled by John Francis Marrin, published 
by the Boston Catholic Publishing Co., 1884. I 
find on the back page a very important article of 
their belief. I will give it w^ord for word as it is in 
the book, and I challenge contradiction : 

''Fairbanks & Neale, manufacturers of mineral and 
soda water, Belfast ginger ale, English lemonade, 
tonic beers, twelve flavors, wholesale dealers in 
malt liquors. The above goods will be furnished 
for fairs, picnics and gatherings, in large or small 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 77 

quantities at special rates. Orders by mail or tele- 
phone promptly attended to. Howard Athenaeum 
Building, Howard St., Boston. Levi Fairbanks, 
Otis S. Neale." 

This is the secret of all the rowdyism and drunken- 
ness at Roman Catholic picnics. What a precious 
article of faith, and unless you believe as they do 
you are eternally damned. 

Read what the same authority has to say upon 
this subject of salvation. "Whosoever shall be 
saved, before all, it is necessary that he hold the 
Catholic faith, which faith, except everyone do keep 
entire and inviolate, without doubt, he shall perish 
everlastingly.'' 

Allow me to ask you to read the first clause of 
this declaration once more, and ask yourself if this 
is not blasphemy. ^'Before all things" you must be 
a Roman Catholic, not as the Bible tells us that who- 
soever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be 
saved. 

I will close this chapter from "plain talk about the 
Protestantism of today," by Mgr. Segur, published 
by Noonan & Co., Boston Mass. 

I know you will agree with me when I say that 
there should be no compromise with such people 
who declare that the Roman Catholic Church has un- 
ceasingly protested that she is the only true church 
and that it is necessary to belong to her in order to 
be a child of God, and to be out of her is to be a 
child of the Devil. You will allow me to make 



/8 THE CHURCH WITHOUT A BIBLE. 

another statement from ^'J^^ges of Faith" who tells 
us that there is one God, and that he has established 
one true church, in which, and by which alone, all 
men are to be saved that are saved at all. Friends, 
don't believe the Roman Catholic that says that he 
does not believe that you are damned when you die. 
I declare it before God and the world that this is the 
fundamental teaching of the ^^Modern Sodom." Fin- 
ally, I defy any Roman Catholic to produce a cate- 
chism that does not bear me out in my statements. 
Rome is deceitful, and I know it. Rome dreads 
converted Romanists. Hear what she has to say 
about her turn-coats, as we are called. 

•'It takes, indeed, apostates from Catholicity to 
form complete adepts in the arts of destruction of 
state and church." 

We most respectfully make our bow to the Ma- 
chine for this compliment. Now, for some plain 
talk. The author of this work asks and answers 
many questions, of which the following are fair 
samples : * 

Page 11 : ''Is Protestantism a religion ? No j it 
is only a collection of sects. Is it an institution ? No, 
it is a rebellion. Is it an instruction ? No ; it is a 
negation.'* 

Page 21 : '^You might as well say that counter- 
feit money is about as valuable as good coin, as to 
say that Protestantism is a religion." 

This is too plain to need comment; and again on 
page 55, we find the following plain talk : 

''To be a Christian is to be a Roman Catholic. 



ITS GODLESS TEACHINGS, ETC. 79 

Outside of Catholicity you may be a Lutheran, a 
Calvanist, a Mohammedan, a Free Thinker, a Mor- 
mon, a Buddhist, but you are not, you cannot be, a 
Christian." 

Page 62 : ^'Protestantism is not what it is claimed 
to be, simple, it is hollow and naked." 

Page '127 : '^It would be an insult to the Catho- 
lic clergy to compare them with the pastors of 
Protestant Sects, as Protestantism is no religion, 
whatever they may say to the contrary." 

So its ministers have not the authority of the 
Priesthood, no matter how hard they may try to 
have its appearance. 

On page 93 we get the following illustration. Let 
me transcribe it word for word as it is in the book: 

*'Had ye ever seen a regiment of noble soldiers 
with serried ranks, marching under the lead of a 
cuirassed chief, and after them the musketeers in 
beautiful order, and then the arquebusiers, with 
the rest of the troops all keeping step to the measured 
beat of the drum, and then had ye seen a swarm of 
monkeys trotting about the streets, carrying wooden 
swords, and shouldering long reeds, beating time 
music on a tin pan, and every mother's son among 
them giving orders to his comrades. Well, ye would 
then recognize in the first the order of the true 
church, and in the latter the disorder of those 
bastard churches which ape the true one." 

Don't be astonished at the Machine calling your 
church a bastard church. This is what you are your- 
self according to the teachings of Rome, as your 
fathers and mothers were never married, as none but 
the Machine can tie the matrimonial knot. Beware, 
gentle reader, do not trust those snakes in your 
midst. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 



THE DOCTRINES OF THE JESUITS. PAPAL DECREES. 

HER CRUELTY TOWARD THOSE WHO LEAVE HER. 

ROMANISM UTTERLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH 

THE LAW OF GOD. 

The sacrifice of the mass is the most solemn cere- 
mony in the Romish Church. Through the mass 
you get from Purgatory to Heaven ; there is no 
other way, notwithstanding that our blessed Sav- 
iour hath said : " I am the way, the truth and the 
life." Is it possible to find a bishop, priest or lay- 
man to point out a single passage in the New Testa- 
ment that even hints at the sacrifice of the mass? I 
answer without fear of contradiction that it is im- 
possible, nay more, it is rani<: blasphemy to preach 
such ; it is unpardonable deception, as I shall prove 
to you further on. No man with the education of a 
Roman Catholic priest, outside of a lunatic asylum, 
can believe in it. What is the Roman Catholic 
mass ? Let us see what the Machine says it is : 

"- The mass is the sacrifice of the body and blood, 
soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, which are really 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 81 

present under the appearance of bread and wine, 
and are offered to God by the priest for the living 
and the dead." 

Is the mass a different sacrifice from that of the 

cross ? 

'^ No," says the infallible church of Rome, " be- 
cause the same Christ who once offered himself a 
bleeding victim to his Heavenly Father on the cross, 
continues to offer himself in an unbloody manner by 
the hands of his priests on our altars." 

What unblushing presumption, when God's word is 
as plain as A B C upon this question. His blessed 
word tells us very plainly that Christ's sacrifice was 
once for all and needs no repetition. When our 
Heavenly Father does anything, bless his holy 
name, he does it complete, and leaves no room for 
the Roman Catholic Machine to improve upon 
his works. All the self-styled improvements 
of Rome, such as the mass, the confessional, in- 
dulgences, penances and others, only help to sink 
their poor, deluded followers deeper in sin, shame 
and misery, giving historians material to work upon, 
and when this is seen in print, they are up in arms 
like that inglorious Judge Fallon, shouting, "bigot- 
ry, bigotry, fanatics, cranks, and so forth." Poor 
Judge Fallon, I pity your ignorance. 

Reader, I ask you to carefully examine the fol- 
lowing coLvincing proofs : 

1 Peter 3. 18 : Christ also died once for our sins, 



82 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

the just for the unjust, that he might offer us to 
God. 

Compare those words from the Douay Bible (Ro" 
man Catholic Version), with the teachings of Rome, 
apd see for yourself. But then, as I have already 
said, Rome does not believe in the Bible. Again 
we find in Heb. 7. 26-27 : 

For it was fitting that we should have such an 
high priest ; holy, innocent, undefiled, separated 
from sinners and made higher than the Heavens. 
Who needeth not daily, as other priests, to offer sac- 
rifices first for his own sins, and then for the peo- 
ple's, for this he has done once by offering himself. 

Also Heb. 9. 25-28, the following powerful proofs: 
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the 
high priest entereth into the holies every year with 
the blood of others, for then he ought to have suf- 
fered often from tlie beginning of the world, but now, 
once at the end of ages he hath appeared for the 
destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself. And 
as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this 
the judgment, so also, Christ was offered once to 
exhaust the sins of many. 

Did you ever think seriously of it? A man daring to 
offer the same sacrifice that Christ offered on Cal- 
vary's cross. A man who drank, used snuff, smoked 
tobacco, went to dances, took young women to neigh- 
boring towns, and put up at hotels as man and wife. 
With all these facts befoi-e us, Cardinal Manning in 
his *' Eternal Priesthood," page 22, dares to tell us 
that the priest is the guardian of our dear Lord. 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 83 

Poor Cardinal Manning ! He may be the guardian 
of your ^^ pastey " God, but lie has nothing to do 
with the God of the true Christian. Once more let 
me call your attention to the infallible word of God: 

Heb. 10. 10, 11, 12: In the which will we are 
sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus 
Christ once. And every priest indeed standeth 
daily ministering, and often offering the same sac- 
rifice, which can never take away sins. But this 
man offering one' sacrifice for sin, forever sitteth at 
the right hand of God. 

Let me impress upon your mind the last clause of 
the 11th verse : "Which can never take away sins." 
No, my dear reader, there is but one thing to wash 
away our sins, and that is the cleansing blood of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Douay Bible positively declares in the pas- 
sages that I have just cited, that Christ offered him- 
self once for all, but the Roman Machine denies 
this, and teaches that he continues to offer himself 
in an unbloody manner by the hands of the priests. 
A more daring, blasphemous statement could not be 
made ; it is blasphemy from beginning to end, es- 
pecially the mass for the dead. No money, no 
mass. The priest does not care a straw for the 
souls of your friends, they only want your money. 
Think of it, dear reader ! Your mother, your father, 
your wife, your dear sister, or perhaps your dear son 
or daughter in a burning fire, and a fireman could 
rescue them but will not do it unless you pay 



84 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

him for it. What would you do ? Would you not in 
your just indignation shoot him as you would a 
dog ? And yet this is what the priests are doing 
every day in the year. Be it distinctly understood 
the priest will not '^say mass " until he is paid for 
it. 

I have already said that the Roman Catholic 
Church claims that Christ continues to offer himself 
in an unbloody manner by the hands of the priests. 
Very well ; let them prove it if they can. Not with 
their penny theology, commonly called the cate- 
chism, but with God's word ; and if they cannot do 
so, let them just own up honestly that the sacrifice 
of the mass is an imposture and a fraud. Their 
own ecclesiastical history declares that the mass 
was invented in the eleventh century, thus the apos- 
tles knew nothing about it. It may be well that we 
should all bear in mind that an unbloody sacrifice is 
no sin-remitting sacrifice at all. I make this state- 
ment backed by that fearless man of God, St Paul, 
who said, that without the shedding of blood there 
is no remission of sins. Hebe 9. 22. 

But why do I wonder, knowing her theology, and 
that theology must have had its birth in the infernal 
regions; listen to the following facts from Fr. Gury. 
These are the doctrines of the Jesuits : Supposing a 
man has a grudge against his neighbor, he takes his 
gun and fires at his neighbor's donkey, who runs 
away unhurt, but kills his neighbor's cow who stood 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 85 

behind the fence. According to the doctrine of the 
Jesuits this man is not responsible to his neighbor 
for damages, because he intended to shoot the don- 
key. A rum-seller is not held to sustain a consider- 
able loss in order to prevent the habitual sin- of 
drunkenness in his client. Charity does Dot force 
upon us such a sacrifice. Can you wonder that Ro- 
man Catholics sell rum? With them and their 
church it is no sin. A man is guilty or in the habit 
of doing something unmentionable ; he goes to hia 
confessor, who, according to those hellish doctrines, 
tells him that he must not be troubled. If it were 
only for once or twice he should avoid it, but as it 
would deprive him of a life-long pleasure, he can go 
ahead. Wonderful church ! 

A man who kills his fellow-man under the plea 
'that he intended to kill somebody else, is free from 
sin. Oh, inhuman brutes ! Are those Jesuits who 
allow unmentionable acts and murder, to go unpun- 
ished ? A woman confesses that she lied^to save her 
cousin from a severe punishment ; can she be ex- 
cused from sin, and is her action commendable? 
She ought to be excused from sin ; moreover, she 
has acted well. Oh, deceitful and lying church. 
"The church," says the machine, "has the power to 
make laws in order to accomplish the end which 
she has in view." 

Ah, my dear reader, that object is the overthrow 
of this grand Republic. 



86 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

A Roman Catholic is never bound to keep his 
oath if he suffers by doing so. A man is not 
bound by oath to a young lady in a promise of mar- 
riage, who is rich and healthy, if she should lose her 
health or her wealth. This is one of the many cases 
where the Church of Rome tells her dupes to defy 
the law of your land ; yes, and the law of God. 

It is the duty of a husband to punish his wife when 
she commits a fault. In the beginning he must 
gently reprove her in order to correct her, or, if that 
is of no effect, to have recourse to more severe pun- 
ishments. The confessor must not believe a woman 
who complains of her husband, because women are 
habitually given to lying. This is quite a compli- 
ment to our wives, mothers and daughters, but such _ 
is Rome, and you cannot mend it. A church whose 
doctrines allow theft and falsehood is beyond salva- 
tion. It is no sin for a Roman Catholic to steal 
from you if you have more than you want. This is 
the very doctrine that caused the communists to be 
executed in Chicago a few years ago, but they did 
not have the Machine at their back, if they had they 
would be living today. You would have to keep your 
hands off, as you had to in the case of John Surratt. 
Listen to the hellish doctrine once more. Can a 
servant compensate himself if he does more work 
than he ought to } Answer, "yes ; if it is by the ex- 
press will of the. master that he works excessively, 
because one who works must be paid in proportion 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS 87 

to his work." The value of this just compensation 
may be left to the judgment of the servant. (No 
arbitration for Rome.) She tells your soldiers on 
the frontier that it is no sin for them to desert if the 
government refuses to supply them with confessors. 
And yet those deceitful reptiles dare to tell you that 
they love this country. 

Dear reader, it is utterly impossible for a Roman 
Catholic bishop or priest to love this glorious 
Republic. I will give you their oath further on. 
Don't forget, dear reader, that all these facts which 
I am presenting to your earnest consideration are 
taken from Fr. Gury's Doctrines of the Jesuits, 
which filled that great Statesman, Paul Burt, with 
such burning indignation that he caused the Jesuits 
to be banished bag and baggage forever from France, 
only to make their homes here in your midst. Will 
you stand it? 

Gambling is not only allowed in the Church of 
Rome, but is a harmless business, and men can 
gamble for prayers if they have nothing else to bet. 
{Gamble for prayers, think of it, gentle reader.) 

In a Catholic country if the wife of a heretic de- 
clares that she is a convert to Catholicism, she can 
leave her husband and marry whom she pleases, 
providing he is a Roman Catholic. This is a very 
easy way to obtain a divorce. Servants may steal 
from their employers what they deem a compensation 
for extra work, and are not compelled to return what 



88 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

they have thus stolen from time to time, even if it 
should amount to a fortune. 

What a glorious church for thieves to belong to, 
and I hardly need add that they may be found in 
her fond embrace in large numbers, simply because 
they have no conscientious scruples. They do not 
wait to think whether God sees them or not doing 
their black deeds, but they always bear in mind that 
the priest will forgive them if they share their ill- 
gotten goods with his reverence. I will give you 
quotations from other Roman Catholic authorities: 

The Council of Lateran declared that the Roman 
Catholics who arm themselves for the extermina- 
tion of heretics have all their sins forgiven. Greg- 
ory VII. declared that killing heretics is no murder. 
St. Thomas' Theology, volume 4, page 90, tells 
his followers to exterminate all heretics. Among 
the decrees of the Council of Constance we find that 
there must be no faith kept with heretics. 

Ah, my dear reader, we who have left the Church 
of Rome know her cruelty. When a man dares to 
desert her to come out into the glorious light of the 
Gospel, that moment he takes his life in his own 
hands. The cruel doctrines of Rome forbid her 
dupes from having anything to do with an "arch- 
heretic, a turn-coat, of course, and especially if he 
dares to expose her damnable errors, the Machine 
says, ''mob him, boycott him, and shun him as you 
would a mad dog or a rattlesnake." But who ever 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 89 

heard of a man who leaves the Protestant faith to 
become a Roman Catholic being mobbed. How is 
it that this can be so ? The answer is plain. Be- 
cause, as we have shown you, the theology of Rome 
is of the Devil. A religion that will poison a 
mother's heart against her own child for no other 
crime than that of accepting Christ as his personal 
Saviour, must have been born in Hell. 

The law of God demands respect for the laws of 
our country. Romanism denies this j nay, more, 
she defies this law, as may be seen from the follow- 
ing : Read this very carefully, and you will see at 
once that it is utterly impossible for a good Roman 
Catholic to be a good citizen. 

The Canon Law, the undisputed, fundamental 
code of Romanism, is utterly incompatible with the 
Constitution and laws of our Republic, as witness 
the following leading provisions, gleaned therefrom 
by Dr. G. F. Von Schulte, Professor of Canonical 
Law at Prague, viz : 

^'I. All human power is from evil, and must 
therefore be standing under the Pope. 

''11. The temporal powers must act uncondition- 
al, in accordance with the orders of the spiritual. 

^'HL The Church is empowered to grant, or 
take away, any temporal possession. 

*TV. The Pope has the right to give countries 
and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic 
regents, who can reduce them to slavery. 

"V. The Pope can make slaves of those Chris- 
tian subjects whose prince or ruling power is inter- 
dicted by the Pope. 



90 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

*'VI. The laws of the Church, concerning the 
liberty of the Church and the Papal power, are based 
upon divine inspiration. 

"VII. The Church has the right to practice the 
unconditional censure of books. 

'^VIII. The Pope has the right to annul State 
laws, treaties, constitutions, etc. ; to absolve from 
obedience thereto, as soon as they seem detrimental 
to the rights of the Church, or those of the clergy. 

'^IX. The Pope possesses the right of admonish- 
ing, and, if needs be, of punishing the temporal 
rulers, emperors, and kings, as well as of drawing 
before the spiritual forum any case in which a mortal 
sin occurs. 

'*X. Without the consent of the Pope no tax or 
rate of any kind can be levied upon a clergyman, or 
upon any church whatsoever. 

"XL The Pope has the right to absolve from 
oaths, and obedience to the persons and the laws 
of the princes whom he excommunicates. 

^•XII, The Pope can annul all legal relations of 
those in ban, especially their marriages. 

"XIII. The Pope can release from every obliga- 
tion, oath, vow, either before or after being made. 

*'X1V. The execution of Papa! commands for 
the persecution of heretics causes remission of sins. 

"XV. He who kills one that is excommunicated 
is no murderer in a legal sense." 

After the above, as well expect concord between 
light and darkness, as between Romanism and 
the Republic. Yet the foregoing utterances are but 
a tithe of the like assumptions to be found in 
twenty folio volumes. 

In the Syllabus of Pius IX., issued Dec. 8, 1864, 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 91 

the rights and powers of the Church are affirmed 
thus, viz. : 

'^She has the right to require the State not to leave 
every man free to profess his own religion. 

'•She has the right to exercise her power without 
the permission or consent of the State. 

"She has the right to prevent the foundation of 
any National Church not subject to the authority of 
the Roman Pontiff. 

"She has the right to deprive the civil authority of 
the Entire government of public schools. 

''She has the right of perpetuating the union of 
Church and State. 

"She has the right to require that the Catholic 
religion shall be the only religion of the State, to 
the exclusion of all others. 

''She has the right to prevent the State from 
granting the public exercise of their own worship to 
persons immigrating into it. 

"She has the power of requiring the State not to 
permit free expression of opinion." 

The power of the Church (Roman Catholic) is 
superior to the power of the State. — Pope Gregory 

•* Bless and curse not/^ saith the great Jehovah. 

Now, I ask any candid being if the Roman Cath- 
olic priests believe this injunction ? Verily, they do 
not. If they did, the writer of those pages would 
not have heard so many of them calling upon God 
to send down his wrath upon their people, simply 
because they might question or differ from them. 
The following is a fair sample : 



92 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

A Priest's Blessing*. 

Extract from a speech of the Rev. John Nash 
Griffin, Minister of Harold's Cross Church, Dublin, 
at the annual meeting of the Irish Church Mission, 
held in London, on the 30th of April, 1852 : 

'^ I pray God to pour down all vengeance on those 
who sent their children to the Kilrelly School on 
last week (particularly two). May the Devil be 
their guide on the right and on the left, lying and 
rising, in bed and out of bed, sitting and standing, 
within and without. May all misfortunes attend 
their families and labors. 

" And any person or persons sending their chil- 
dren to this school henceforth, may they be struck 
blind and deaf, so as never to see any of their chil- 
dren again; and may the children sent to the school 
go wild. May they never leave the world until they 
become such examples as that the marrow may come 
through their shin-bones. May they be pained both 
standing and sitting ; and may they never leave this 
world until they are in such a state that the dogs 
would not bear coming near their carcasses when 
dead. 

'M pray to God that every child who goes to this 
school, that for every day he spends in it, his 
life may be curtailed a twelve month, and that they 
may enjoy a year of maturity ; and that those people 
who sent their children to the school, that their 
crops and their goods may be taken away by the 
Devil j and may all these misfortunes attend any 
person taking their posterity in marriage thfrty years 
hence. 

*' I pray the Almighty to hear this prayer (/ /) as 
the minister (//) of God, and I now strictly command 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 93 

this congregation to kneel down and pray to God 
to grant me my prayer." (II!) 

This curse was pronounced by a Maynooth man, 
the Rev. Michael Meehan, Roman Catholic priest of 
Carregaholt, near Kilrush. 

Gentle reader, 1 feel constrained to give you one 
more of those godless maledictions : 

Cursed His Congreg'ation. 

A FRIGHTFUL MALEDICTION CALLED DOWN BY 
FATHER o'bRIEN. 

A correspondent writes as follows to the Cleveland 
(Roman) Catholic Knight : 

On a recent Sunday at St. Patrick's Church, West 
Side, I was shocked beyond measure by the strange 
conduct of Rev.' Father O'Brien, our recently ap- 
pointed pas' or. Our congregation has always done 
its duty nobly in the matter of responding generously 
to appeals for financial help toward all parochial 
purposes. On the Sunday alluded to, Fr. O'Brien, 
regarded by some as a temperance orator, made a 
most intemperate harangue, and convinced me that 
there was a temperance of speech as much needed 
as temperance in alcoholic drinks, I never listened 
to a wilder discourse. It seems that the contribu- 
tions of his congregation were not pouring in as fast 
as the pastor desired, and in hope of frightening his 
parishioners into greater exertions, he launched out 
against them such a torrent of abuse and maledic- 
tion that the congregation were disgusted in the ex- 
treme. Among other rash denunciations. Father 
O'Brien prayed that Heaven would scourge the peo- 
ple of St. Patrick's with the most fearful calamities 



94 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

— that if they would not give their oiferings more 
abundantly, he wished that God would curse the 
wealth they possessed, that their arms fall paralyzed 
by their sides, and the malediction of Heaven and 
the curse of Ananias and Sapphira fall upon them, 
etc., and poured out on the devoted heads of the 
parishioners of St. Patrick's such vituperation and 
scandalous abuse, that it is a wonder the people 
could sit patiently in their seats and endure such 
gross insults. 

Now, Mr. Editor, it strikes me that if we had less 
maledictions and more charity in our public dis- 
courses, it would be better for the interests of relig- 
ion. I would like to ask Father O'Brien, as of 
course he must be a Biblical scholar, when did our 
Lord curse his followers, and threaten against them 
all manner of woe if they did not keep him well 
supplied with money ? Money is preached in our 
church more than the gospel. But, Mr. Editor, will 
you please explain the fate of Ananias and Sapphira, 
as Father O'Brien wished, most vehemently, that the 
parishioners of St. Patrick's s:hould meet with the 
same lot ? Might it not happen that curses, like 
chickens, sometimes come home to roost ? 

At any rate, please inform me, Mr. Editor^ what 
became of Ananias and Sapphira? Since Father 
O'Brien's discourse I am rather interested. 

Yours sincerely. 

West Sider. 

[The fate of Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, is re- 
lated in the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. 
They were suddenly struck dead in the midst of 
their sins. The malediction of Father O'Brien is 
the most fearful that could be uttered by human 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 95 

lips, and there can be no excuse for such language 
in the mouth of anyone, much less in a priest of 
God. We are glad to be able to inform you, and 
others who have not since then worshiped at St. 
Patrick's, that Father O'Brien retracted this infam- 
ous language the following Sunday. Surely there is 
need of that Reform (with a big R) in certain quar- 
ters of the Cleveland diocese that the Catholic 
Knight is battling for. — Kd. C. K.'] 

The inspired word of God says, *' Thou shalt not 
steal, thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not 
bear false witness against thy neighbor,'* and many 
other things. Does the church of Rome believe in 
those commands from on high ? Her theology, from 
beginning to end, clearly demonstrates that she does 
not. *' Believe on the. Lord Jesus Christ and thou 
shalt be saved," said that fearless man of God, St. 
Paul. "Out of the church of Rome there is no salva- 
tion, no matter what you believe," says the Ma- 
chine. " Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest," says the lowly 
Jesus. The Roman Catholic Machine says, " Come 
into the sentry box of his Satanic Majesty, the con- 
fessional, until I poison your young minds with my 
filthy questions." 

Many an innocent boy and girl has said, ^' Father, 
I do not understand what you say," when their 
thoughts had been dragged through obscene regions 
hitherto unknown to their innocent hearts. Oh, 
think of it ! A brute of a man asking innocent boys 



96 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

and girls questions of a licentious nature. Father 
Chiniquy tells of his first confesssion. He says to 
the priest, " Sir, I am very wicked ; I have seen, 
heard and done many things which I regret, but I 
never was guilty of what you mention to me.'' Oh, 
cesspool of iniquity ! 

Did you ever seriously ask yourself the question, 
how is it that Roman Catholics can call themselves 
christians, and swear, and get drunk, and use such 
filthy and profane language as they are in the habit of 
doing ? Let me tell you why it is that those evil habits 
are so natural to Romanists. The root of this evil 
is in the confessional. Times without number have I 
heard people say when rebuked by some friend for 
their profanity or vulgarity, *'0h, that is no harm, the 
priest would say that j" the poor drunkard might ex- 
claim, ''Oh, it is no harm, the priest gets drunk,'' as 
many of them are in the habit of doing. 

Dear reader, I have endeavored in m^^ first chap- 
ter to prove to you from the inspired word of God 
that the Pope of Rome can claim no succession from 
the Apostle Peter, or from any other of Christ's 
followers, unless it be Judas. 

Now I propose, God helping me, to prove to you 
from history that the loving God that rules this uni- 
verse never gave such sinful m^n as the majority of 
the popes of Rome have been, any power to repre- 
sent him. History clearly demonstrates that God 
was not with them, simply because they were not his. 



THE DOCTRINE OF THE JESUITS. 97 

It is laughable to hear Roman Catholics talking 
of the spiritual power of the most Holy Father, the 
Pope. I would like to ask any Roman Catholic 
where was the power of Clement VII., when, as we 
are told by the eloquent Spanish orator, Castelar, 
he was forced to eat the flesh of horses and asses. 
I have before me a Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical 
History, published by John Murphy & Co , of 
Baltimore, and I fail to find in that history the 
record of a time when honest thinking men were not 
up in rebellion against a man of sin. Roman Catho- 
lics may boast of the unbroken chain from Peter to 
Leo. XIII. It is simply bosh. 

The Boston Pilot, Archbishop Williams' paper, 
frankly admits that the chain has been broken; that 
they have lost track of the popes. A lamentable 
confession for an archbishop to make. You can find 
this on file in the office of the Pilot ; ask for October 
25th, 1890. You have it here, word for wo^d. I 
will also show you that the blessing of the Pope is to 
be dreaded more than his curse, and it is nothing 
short of blasphemy to dare to claim any power from 
on high for such wicked men as the popes of Rome 
have been. 

Read carefully the following article from the Bos- 
ton Pilot of October 25th, 1890 : 

*'W. W.'' Boston : *'Will you kindly tell me how 
many popes there have been, counting from St. 
Peter ? The Catholic column in the Boston Herald 



98 THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 

last week, gave the number as 255 ; an engraving 
just published in New York gives the number as 
259 j Donahue's Magazine for October gives the 
number as 253, while the ' List and Portraits of the 
Popes, ' just published by Doyle & Whittle, of this 
city, says there are 263. Which is correct.^" The 
answer to this query has been delayed for the pur- 
pose of examining authorities on the subject. The 
result of such examination impresses us that exact 
chronology of the Roman Pontiffs is a difficult mat- 
ter to arrange, and where authorities who have made 
ecclesiastical history an almost life study differ, we 
do not undertake to give our view as decisive. 
Most lists have been prepared from ancient pictures 
and catalogues. Writers do not exactly agree as to 
the dates of creation to the Papal Chair. Further, 
during the periods of agitation attending the so- 
journ of the Papacy at Avignon, and in some of the 
cases of the anti-popes, some writers count, while 
others exclude, certain claimants. In this way the 
number is made to vary from 259 to 263 or 264. 
This last number is given by a French author in a 
regular biography of the Roman Pontiffs. The 
number 259 is given in history, edited by Dr. Neli- 
ga;n. The excisions referred to seem to have been 
made in this case. The Roman Almanac, a suf- 
ficiently good authority, gives the number as 263, 
which agrees with that given in the "Portraits and 
List," published by Messrs. Doyle & Whittle, and 
taken in connection with the fact that one of the 
Pontiffs-elect, Stephen II., died before consecration, 
and by several not reckoned, corresponds with the 
number given in the French biography, it seems as 
well authenticated as any." 



The Pope's Blessing* to be Dreaded. 

The Jt^rimitive Catholic states that from the time 
the Pope blessed Jefferson Davis and the Con- 
federacy the cause of the North was in the ascen- 
dancy, until it finally reached a complete triumph. 
Whether or not this is true, it is in a line with what 
has over and over occurred when the vicar of anti- 
Christ blasphemously attempted to bless his follow- 
ers. 

The Pope's blessing, indeed, is more dreaded than 
his curse. History confirms this statement. There 
never'was an instance of papal blessing but it was 
turned into a curse. W? can prove this from events 
in our own day. The Pope sent the golden rose (a 
special mark of favor), with his blessing, to King 
Bomba, of Naples, and in less than twelve months 
afterward the king lost his crown and his kingdom. 
He next sent his blessing to Francis Joseph, Em- 
peror of Austria, and in less than twelve months he 
was defeated at Sadowa, and lost his Venetian do- 
minions. He then sent it to Queen Isabella, of Spain, 
and again, within the same short space, she lost 
both croWn and dominions. He then sent it to 
Louis Napoleon, or rather the Empress Eugenie, 
which is most remarkable still, as she called that 
war with Germany "her war;" and again in less than 



100 THE pope's blessing TO BE DREADED. 

twelve months France was defeated by Protestant 
Germany, and the Emperor had to flee to Protestant 
England for shelter, where he died in exile. 

Mrs. General Sherman got the golden rose as a 
special mark of favor for her service to the church, 
and it w^as too much for her, as she died soon after. 

The Pope cursed Italy, as he had cursed Eng- 
land under Elizabeth, when he excommunicated 
Victor Emanuel for seizing the papal dominions, 
and for making Rome the capital of his kingdom. 
Since then Italy has risen from being a cipher 
amongst nations to become a voice and a power in 
the councils of Europe. 

He cursed Germany, and she became the greatest 
power of continental Europe. 

The Pope sent his blessfhg to that French show- 
man, Boulanger, and in less than two weeks after he 
had to flee for his liberty, and took refuge in Ger- 
many, and is now an exile in the Island of Guernsey. 

The Princess of Brazil, when nearing her confine- 
nient, requested the interposition of the Pope, and 
his blessing upon her child. She received it and 
the child was born deformed. 

Maximilian was killed a short time after being 
blessed by the Pope as Emperor of Mexico, and his 
wife became insane after going to Rome and receiv- 
ing the benediction. 

The Pope neglected some official business in or- 
der to give his special blessing to an English steam- 



A TERRIBLE RECORD. 101 

er laden with sisters of charity for South Africa in 
1370, and it never reached its destination. Every 
soul perished. 

The Empress of Brazil was blessed but once, but 
that was enough, she broke her leg three days after. 

It will be remembered that the floating palace de- 
layed its starting from Montevideo to Buenos Ayres 
until it received the assurance of safety in the papal 
blessing, then raised its anchor, sailed out to sea — 
and went down in two days. 

McGlynn tells us that he has grown fat and happy 
on the Pope's curse; and the editor of this paper has 
reason to bless God for the day the Abbott Bene- 
dict cursed him with bell, book and candle, and he 
left Gethsemane Monastery in Kentucky, with the 
mark of Cain, as it were, upon him. Since then he 
has grown strong, healthy and happy, whereas the 
old man who did the cursing was stricken with 
paralysis and died recently. 

The following is a record of those Romish saints 
and popes who have been doing this cursing. 
Surely curses are like chickens, they come home to 
roost : 



A Terrible Record. 



THE POPES OF ROME AND A HISTORY OF THEIR 
LIVES. 

Of the two hundred and ninety-four Popes thirty- 
one were designated usurpers, or anti-popes. 



102 A TERRIBLE RECORD. 

Sixty-four Popes called legitimate died violent 
deaths. Of this number eighteen were poisoned, 
namely : John XL, Clement II., Damascus II., 
Stephen IX., John XIII., Pascal II. (the same who 
disinterred and insulted the dead bodies of^ Henry 
IV. of Germany and Clement II.), Benedict IX., 
Alexander V., Pius III., Alexander VI., Adrian VI., 
Marcellus II., Urban VII., Clement VIII. and 
Clement XIV., Leo XL and Leo XIL, according to 
Bianchi Giovina, and finally Leo X., of whom it is 
not certain whether he died of poison or of an evil 
disease. Four popes were assasinated — John VIII. ^ 
Leo VI., Leo VII. and John XII. Then thirteen 
others died various deaths — Stephen VII. was 
strangled, Leo III. and John XVI. were mutilated, 
John X. was smothered, Benedict VI. was throttled 
with a rope, John XV. was famished as well as 
Gregory XVI., according to Gualtero; Lucius 
II. was stoned to death, Gregory VIII. encaged in a 
prison of iron, and Celestine V. by means of a nail 
driven into his temples. Boniface VIII. committed 
suicide; Clement V. was burned to death upon a bed 
of agony. Urban VI. was precipitated from his 
horse and killed by the fall. Paul 11. succumbed 
beneath the crushing weight of his tiara, and Pius 
IV. died of excess in the arms of a woman. Sixty- 
four Popes out of the two hundred and sixty-three 
have perished in extraordinary manners, not count- 
ing a score of others who died suddenly from the 
effects of chagrin in consequence of misfortunes 
they" had to endure, especially Gregory IX., Inno- 
cent IV., Paul III., Paul IV. and Gregory XIII. 
Twenty-six Popes have been deposed, expelled or 
exiled, not counting the Popes at Avignon. They 
were Sergius III., Benedict V., Leo VIII , John 



A TERRIBLE RECORD. 103 

XIIL, Benedict VIII., Sylvester III., Gregory V., 
VII., IX., XII., Alexander III., Urban V., Pascal 
II., Gelasius II., Innocent II., Eugenius III., 
Adrian IV., Lucius III., Martin IV., Pius VII., and 
John XXIII., whom Martin V. chased as if he had 
been a ferocious beast. Many popes have been 
accused of murder. Twenty-eight popes invoked 
foreign aid to maintain them in their See. Stephen 
II. appealed to Pepin and the Franks ; Adrian I. to 
Charlemagne; John VIII. to the Franks and Charles 
the Stammerer; Formocus to Arnolphe the Emperor 
of Germany; John II. to Otho L; John XV. and 
Gregory V. appealed to Otho III.; Leo IX. to Henry 
III.; Gregory VII. to Henry IV. and Robert Guis- 
card; Nicholas II. invited Frederic Barbarossa; Urban 
IV. and Clement IV. drew to them Charles of 
Anjou; Boniface VIII. drew Charles of Valois; John 
XXII. the Austrians of Frederick the Beautiful; 
Innocent VI. appealed to Charles IV. of Germany; 
Urban VI. to Louis of Hungary; John XXIL to 
Sigismund; Sixtus IV. to the Turks for the destruc- 
tion of Venice; Innocent VIII. to Charles VIII. of 
France; Alexander VI. to the French of Louis XII. 
and the Spaniards of Ferdinand the Catholic; 
Julius II. to the French, to Maximilian of Austria, 
to the Spaniards and the English; Leo X. to Charles 
v., to Henry VIII. of England and to Ferdinand of 
Astoria; Clement VIII. to Charles V.: Paul IV. to 
Henry II. and Soliman; Gregory XVI. twice to 
Prince Metternich; Pius IX. to the Austrians, to the 
Spaniards, twice to the French, to the Neapolitans 
of Ferdinand II., to the black bands of Lamoriciere, 
to the brigands of Francis II., and to the volunteers 
of the Catholic and even heretical world. In brief, 
ninety popes have died violent deaths, been ex- 



104 bishop's oath. 

pelled, dropped or exiled ; thirty five who merited 
the same were false to the Pontifical institution j 
twenty-eight there were who would have undergone 
the same chastisement had not the foreigner inter- 
fered to save them ; in all, one hundred and thirty- 
five popes out of the two hundred and sixty-three 
who have been unworthy of their position. What 
dynasty, what institution in the world has ever had 
such a history ! — Converted Catholic. 



Bishop's Oath. 

" I, G. N., elect of the church of N., from hence- 
forth will be faithful and obedient to St Peter the 
Apostle, and to the holy Roman Church, and to our 
lord, the lord of N., Pope N. and to his successors 
canonically coming in. I will neither advise, con- 
sent, nor do anything that they may lose life or 
member, or that their persons may be seized or 
hands anywise laid upon them, or any injuries 
offered to them, under any pretence whatsoever. 
The counsel which they shall entrust me withal, by 
themselves, their messengers or letters, I will not 
knowingly reveal to any, to their prejudice. I 
will help them to defend and keep the Roman Pap- 
acy and the royalties of St. Peter, saving my order 
against all men. The legate of the Apostolic See, 
going and coming I will honorably treat, and help 
in his necessities. 

The rights, honors and privileges, and Authority of 
the holy Roman Church, of our lord the Pope and 



bishop's oath. 105 

his aforesaid successors, I will endeavor to preserve, 
defend, increase and advance. I will not be in any 
council, action or treaty, in which shall be plotted 
against our said lord, and the said Roman Church, 
anything to the hurt or prejudice of their persons^ 
right, honor, state or power ; and if I shall know 
any such thing to be treated or agitated by any 
whomsoever, I will hinder it all I can; and as soon 
as I can, will signify it to our said lord, or some 
other, by whom it may come to his knowledge. The 
rules of the Holy Fathers, the Apostolic decrees, or- 
dinances, or disposals, reservations, provisions and 
mandates, I will observe with all my might, and 
cause to be observed by others. Heretics, schis- 
matics and rebels to our said lord, or his aforesaid 
successors, I will to the utmost of my power perse- 
cute and oppose. I will come to a council when I 
am called, unless I be hindered by a canonical im- 
pediment. I will by myself in person visit the 
threshold of the Apostles every three years, and gfve 
an account to our lord and his aforesaid successors 
of all my pastoral office, and of all things anywise 
belonging to the state of my church, to the disci- 
pline of my clergy and people, and lastly to the sal- 
vation of souls committed to my trust; and will in 
like manner humbly receive and diligently execu'e 
the x\postolic commands. And if I be detained by 
a lawful impediment, I will perform all the things 
aforesaid by a certain messenger hereto specially 



106 priest's oath. 

empowered, a member of my chapter or some other 
in ecclesiastical dignity, or else having a parsonage ; 
or in default of these, by a priest of the diocese ; or 
in default of one of the clergy (of the diocese), by 
some other secular or regular priest of approved in- 
tegrity and religion, fully instructed in all things 
above mentioned. And such impediment I will 
make out, by lawful proofs, to be transmitted by the 
aforesaid messenger, to the Cardinal proponent of 
the holy Roman Church, in the congregation of the 
sacred council. The possessions belonging to my 
table I will neither sell nor give away, nor mortgage, 
nor grant anew in fee, nor anywise alienate, no 
not even with the consent of the chapter of my 
church, without consulting the Roman Pontiff. 
And if I shall make any alieration, I will thereby 
incur the penalties contained in a certain constitu- 
tion put forth aboijt this matter. 

^* So help me God and these holy Gospels of 
God." 



Priest's Oath, 

*' I, A. B., do acknowledge the ecclesiastical pow- 
er of his holiness and the mother church of Rome, 
as the chief Head and matron above all pretended 
churches throughout the whole earth ; and that my 
zeal shall be for St. Peter and his successors, as the 
founder of the true and ancient Catholic faith, 
against all heretical kings, princes, states or powers. 



Jesuit's oath. 107 

repugnant unto the same; and although I, A. B., may 
follow, in case of persecution, or otherwise to be 
heretically despised, yet in soul and conscience I 
shall hold, aid and succor the mother church of 
Rome, as the true, ancient and apostolic church : 
I, A. B., further do declare not to act or control any 
matter or thing prejudicial unto her, in her sacred 
orders, doctrines, tenets or commands, without leave 
of its supreme power or its authority, under her ap- 
pointed, or to be appointed; and being so permitted, 
then to act, and further her interests more than 
my own earthly good and earthly pleasure, as she 
and her Head, his holiness, and his successors have, 
or ought to have, the supremacy over all kings, 
princes, estates or powers whatsoever, either to de- 
prive them of their crowns, sceptres, powers, privi- 
leges, realms, countries or governments, or to set up 
others in lieu thereof, they dissenting from the moth- 
er church and her commands.*' 



Jesuit's Oath. 



I, N.,-now in the presence of Almighty God, :he 
Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the 
Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the holy 
Apostles Peter and Paul and the saints and sacred 
hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly father, do 
declare from my. heart, without mental reservation, 
the Pope, N., is Christ's Vicar General, and is the 



108 Jesuit's oath. 

true and only head of the Universal Church through- 
out the earth, and that, by virtue of the keys of 
binding and loosing, given to his Holiness by Jesus 
Christ, he hath power to dispose of all heretical 
kings, princes, states, commonwealths, governments, 
all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, that 
they may be safely destroyed, therefore to the ut- 
most of my power I will defend this doctrine and his 
Holiness' rights and customs against all usurpers of 
the heretical and Protestant authority whatsoever, 
especially against the now pretended authority of 
the Church of England and all adherents, in regard 
that they be usurped and heretical, opposing the 
sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do renounce 
and disown all allegiance as due to any heretical 
king, prince or state named Protestant, or obedience 
to any of their inferior magistrates or officers. I do 
further declare the doctrine of the Church of Eng- 
land, of the Calvanists, Huguenots and other Protes- 
tants to be damnable, and those to be damned who 
will not forsake the same. I do further declare that 
I will help, assist and advise all or any of his Holi- 
ness' agents in any place wherever I shall be, and 
to do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protes- 
tants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended 
power, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and 
declare that, notwithstanding I am dispensed with 
to assume any religion heretical for the propagation 
of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and 



OATH OF A LAYMAN. 109 

private all her agents' counsels as they entrust me, 
and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, 
writing or circumstance whatsoever, but to execute 
all which shall be proposed, given in charge or dis- 
covered unto me by you, my ghostly father, or by 
any one of this convent. All of which I do swear by 
the Holy Trinity and Blessed Sacrament, which I 
am now to receive, to perform and on my part to 
keep inviolably, and to call all the heavenly and 
glorious host of Heaven to witness my real inten- 
tions to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I 
take this most holy and Blessed Sacrament of the 
Eucharist and witness the same further with my 
hand and seal in the face of this holy convent. 



Oath of a Lay man. 

Commonly called the Creed of Pope Pius IV, 

I, N. N., with a firm faith believe and profess all 
and every one of those things which are contained 
in that creed which the holy Roman Church maketh 
use of. To wit : I believe in one God, the Father 
Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and of all 
things visible and invisible ; and in one Lord Jesus 
Christ, the only begotten son of God, born of the 
Father before all ages ; God of God ; Light of light ; 
true God of the true God ; begotten, not made, con- 
substantial with the Father, by whom all things were 
made. Who, for us men, and for our salvation. 



110 OATH OF A LAYMAN. 

came down from Heaven, and was incarnate by the 
Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. 
He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilot, 
suffered, and was buried. And the third day he 
rose again according to the Scriptures ; he ascended 
into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of the Father, 
and shall come again with glory to judge the living 
and the dead, of whose kingdom there shall be no 
end. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and 
the life-giver, who proceedeth from the Father and 
the Son : who, together with the Father and*the Son, 
is adorned and glorified ; who spake by the prophets. 
And in one holy. Catholic and Apostolic Church. 
I confess one baptism for the remission of sins ; and 
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life 
of the world to come. Amen. 

I most steadfastly admit and embrace the apos- 
tolic and ecclesiastical Traditions, and all other ob- 
servances and constitutions of the same church. 

I also admit the holy Scriptures, according to that 
sense which our holy mother the Church hath held 
and doth hold, to whom it belongeth to judge of the 
true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures ; 
neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise 
than according to the unanimous consent of the 
Fathers. 

I also profess that there are truly and properly 
Seven Sacraments of the new law, instituted by 
Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salva. 



OATH OF A LAYMAN. Ill 

tion of mankind, though not all for every one ; to wit: 
Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Ex- 
treme Unction, Order and Matrimony : and that they 
confer grace : and that of these, Baptism, Confirma- 
tion and Order, cannot be repeated without sacri- 
lege. I also receive and admit the received and ap- 
proved ceremonies of the Catholic Churchy used in 
the solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments. 

I embrace and receive all and every one of the 
things which have been defined and declared in the 
holy Council of Trent concerning original sin and 
justification. 

I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered 
to God a true, proper and propitiatory sacrifice for 
the living and the dead. And that in the most holy 
sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and 
substantially the Body and Blood, together with the 
soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and that 
there is made a conversion of the whole substance 
of the bread into the Body, and of the whole sub- 
stance of the wine into the Blood, which conversion 
the Catholic Church calleth Transubstantiation. 
also confess that under either kind alone Christ is 
received whole and entire, and a true sacrament. 

I constantly hold that there is a Purgatory, and 
that the souls therein detained are helped by the 
suffrages of the faithful. 

Likewise, that t^e saints reigning together with 
Christ are to be honored and invocated, and that 



112 OATH OF A LAYMAN. 

they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics 
are to be held in veneration. 

I most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of 
the Mother of God ever Virgin, and also of other 
Saints, ought to be had and retained, and that due 
honor and veneration are to be given them. 

I also affirm that the power of Indulgences was 
left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of 
them is most wholesome to Christian people. 

I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Ro- 
man Church for the mother and mistress of all 
Churches; and I promise true obedience to the 
Bishop of Rome, successor of St. Peter, Prince of 
the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ. 

I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all 
other things delivered, defined and declared by the 
sacred canons and General Councils, and particu- 
larly by the holy Council of Trent. And I condemn, 
reject and anathematize all things contrary thereto, 
and all heresies which the Church hath condemned, 
rejected and anathematized. 

I, N. N., do at this present freely profess and sin- 
cerely hold this true Catholic faith, out of which 
no one can be saved ; and I promise most constantly 
to retain and confess the same entire and inviolate^ 
by God's assistance, to the end of my life. 



A POPISH BULL, OR CURSE. 113 

A Popish Bull, or Curse. 

PRONOUNCED ON REV. WM. HOGAN, FORMERLY A 
PAPAL PRIEST IN PHILADELPHIA. 

" ' By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, 
Son and Holy Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, 
mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all Ce- 
lestial Virtues, Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Do- 
minions, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim, and of 
all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of all the 
Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, 
who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy 
to sing the new song of the Holy Martyrs and Holy 
Confessors, and of all the Holy Virgins, and of all 
Saints together with the Holy elect of God ; ' — 
May he, William Hogan, be damned. We excom- 
municate and anathematize him from the threshold 
of the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequest- 
er him, that he may be tormented, disposed and be 
delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, and with 
those who say unto the Lord, ' Depart from us, we 
desire none of thy ways ; ' as a fire is quenched with 
water, so let the light of him be put out for ever- 
more, unless it shall repent him and make satisfac- 
tion. Amen. 

'* May the Father, who creates man, curse him ! — 
May the son who suffered for us, curse him ! — May 
the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse 
him ! — May the Holy Cross^ which Christ for our 



114 THE POPISH BULL, OR CURSE. 

salvation, triumphing over his enemies, ascended, 
curse him ! 

*' May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and mother of 
God, curse him ! — May St. Michael, the Advocate 
of the Holy Souls, curse him ! — May all the Angels, 
Principalities and Powers, and all Heavenly Armies, 
curse him ! — May the glorious band of the Patri- 
archs and Prophets, curse him ! 

" May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the 
Baptist, and St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, 
and all other of Christ's Apostles together, curse 
him ! And may the rest of the Disciples and Evan- 
gelists, who by their preaching converted the uni- 
verse, and the holy and wonderful company of Mar- 
tyrs and Confessors, who by their works are found 
pleasing to God Almighty ; — May the holy choir of 
the Holy Virgins, who, for the honor of Christ, have 
despised the things of the world, damn him ! May 
all Saints from the beginning of the world to ever- 
lasting ages, who are found to be beloved of God, 
damn him ! 

*' May he be damned wherever he be, whether in 
the house or in the alley, in the woods or in the 
water, or in the church! May he be cursed in living 
and dying ! 

** May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in be- 
ing hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, 
in slumbering and in sitting, in living, in working, 
in resting and * * =* and in blood letting ! 



OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 115 

''May he be cursed in all the faculties of his 
body ! 

'* May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly ! May 
he be cursed in his hair j cursed be he in his brains 
and his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in 
his cheeks, in his iaw-bones, in his nostrils, in his 
teeth and grinders, in his lips, in his shoulders, in 
his arms, in his fingers ! 

" May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, 
in his heart and purtenances, down to the very stom- 
ach ! 

" May he be cursed in his * * * and his * * * j 
in his thighs, in * * * *, and his * "* and in his 
knees, his legs and his feet and toe-nails ! 

*' May he be cursed in all his joints and articula- 
tion of the members ; from the crown of his head to 
the soles of his feet may there be no soundness ! 

*' May the. Son of the living God, with all the 
glory of his majesty, curse him ! And may Heaven, 
with all the powers that move therein, rise up against 
him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and 
make satisfaction. Amen ! So be it. Be it so, 
Amen ! " 



Opinions of Distinguished Men. 

There is not one of the large daily newspapers of 
Boston that has not been working almost constantly 
in the interests of Romanism during the several 
months of the late Protestant-Jesuit controversy. 



116 OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN- 

The conspiracy of the press of Boston to cheat the 
public on news and facts to which it is entitled, is a 
reproach to our civilization, and deserves the deri- 
sion and scorn of all honest men. — Prof. L, T. Town- 
send, Boston University, 

In seven years $1,713,490 of public money has 
been delivered over to the Roman Catholic Church 
to make Romanists of the American Indians. In 
seventeen years that alien church has received from 
the public funds of the city of Ne.w York, $10,915,- 
810. — Rev, Richard Harcourt, 

For every 10,000 inhabitants, the Roman Catho- 
lic schools produce 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers, 
and 160 criminals. — Rev, Richard Har com t. 

Nothing is more certain than that we are living in 
a grave and aw^ful time. The Pilot says, "No good 
governrrent can exist without religion, and there can 
be no religion without the Inquisition. It is wisely 
designed for the perpetuation and permanence of 
the true faith/' Is this Boston? Is this America.^ 
Is this the nineteenth century 1 I tell you, ladies 
and gentlemen^ every drop of blood in my body boils 
when I read that. — Rev, R, S. Mc Arthur, in Tremont 
Temple^ Boston. 

We will take this country and build our institutions 
over the grave of Protestantism. — Priest Hecker, 

The common school system of the United States 
is the worst in the world. — Cardinal Manning, 

I frai.kly confess that the Catholics stand before 
the country as the enemies of the public schools. — 
Father Phelan, 

They who send their children to the public schools 
cannot expect the mercy of God ; they ought not to 



OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 117 

expect the sacraments of the church in their dying 
moments. — Father Walker, New York, 

The public school system is a disgrace to the civi" 
lization of the nineteenth century. — Bishop Hughes, 

The public school is a national fraud ; it must 
cease to exist, and the day will come when it will 
cease to exist. — Priest jF. S. McCarthy^ a Jesuit, 

It will be a glorious day for the Catholics of this 
country when, under the blows of justice and mo- 
rality, our school system shall be shivered to pieces. 
— Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph. 

Unless you suppress the public school system as 
at present conducted, it will prove the damnation of 
this country. — Father Walker, 

The public school system is a swindle on the peo- 
ple, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters 
of morals, and should be abolished forthwith. — New 
. York Tablet. 

The public schools are devouring fires and pits of 
destruction ; they ought to go back to the devil, from 
whence they came. — Freeman's Journal, 

Swearing, cursing and profane expressions are 
distinctive marks of public school children. — Second 
Provincial Council of Oregon,, 1881. 

The public school system is grossly and mon- 
strously immoral ; it is a blot, a blemish, and a dis- 
grace on this country, and a living scandal and an 
opprobrium, which covers its promoters with shame 
and infamy. — Archbishop Serher, 

The public schools have produced nothing but a 
godless generation of thieves and blackguards. — 
Priest Schauer. 



118 OPrNIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 

Not only is the papal sword drav/n for the destruc- 
tion of the priceless public schools — its very scab- 
bard is thrown away. Parochial schools are rising 
from sea to sea, and the entire papal hierarchy is 
united against our system. — Rev, Jos. Cook, {Evan- 
gelist?) 

We have about 17,000 newspapers in this country. 
I do not know that there are 200, or perhaps not over 
150, of these papers that are not, to a considerable de- 
gree, under the power of Rome at this moment. — 
Rev, R. S. Mc Arthur {Baptist), New York. 

The '^Hamilton" School m the city of New Haven, 
Conn., is a distinctively Catholic school, of 500 
children, taught by eleven Sisters of Mercy at a cost 
to the city of $5,000. In New Britain, in the same 
state, the Catholic school was adopted by the town, 
and is supported at a yearly expense of $3,000. In 
Waterbury, the parochial school is supported out of 
the public fund. — Arnold Publishing Company.^ Bos- 
ton. 

I can scarcely withhold myself from joining in the 
wish of Silas Deane, that there was an ocean of fire 
between this and the old world. — Thofnas Jefferson, 

I do not pretend to be a prophet ; but, though not 
a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon, 
and that cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled 
with tears of blood. — Abraham Lincoln. 

We are fast becoming a conquered people. All 
the elements that have made our Constitution work 
so easily for one hundred years, are changing every 
day with every foreign vessel that lands its cargo at 
Castle Garden. In another generation your children 
and children's children will be in the minority, and 



OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 119 

aliens will possess the land. — Bishop A. C, Coxe, 
{EpiscopaL) 

The crucial test for the American Republic will 
come in the early part of the twentieth century, and 
as the Huns swept down on Rome, so will a vast 
horde sweep down on America. — Macaulay, 

Out of every 100 persons in New York, 80 are 
foreign born, or children of foreign born parents ; 
Cincinnati, 60 ; Boston, 69 ; Brooklyn, 67 ; Wash- 
ington, 71 ; St. Louis, 78 ; San Francisco, 78 ; 
Cleveland, 80 ; Detroit, 84 ; Milwaukee, 84 j Chi- 
cago, 1^.— Bishop y, F, Hursti^Methodisf). 

Americans must be blind indeed, if they cannot 
see that the day is very near when the Jesuits will 
rule their cities, from the magnificent white house at 
Washington to the humblest civil or military de- 
partment of this vast Republic. — Rev. Charles Chini- 
quy^ in ^^ Fifty Years i?i the Church of Rome. ^"^ 

The Pope of Rome is at the head of a conspiracy 
to destroy this Republic. It is the madness of folly 
to ignore present danger. Stand by your country, 
your God and your flag. — Rev. J, G. White (^Presby- 
terian)^ Stanford^ III. 

We are faced with two dangers, — the aggressive- 
ness of Romanism and the apathy of Protestants. — 
Rev. O. P. Gifford {Baptist), Boston. 

The most open, pronounced enemy of every prin- 
ciple of the United States is the Roman Catholic 
Church. Mark my words, the time is sure to come, 
and that ere long, when Romanism will have the 
public school moneys of our commonwealths divided, 
and a large share appropriated to their denomina- 
tional institutions, unless freemen arouse and pro- 



120 OPINIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MEN. 

tect the treasuries on which they have already be- 
gun to make attacks. — Rev, I. y. Lansing {Congre- 
gational)^ in ^^ Romanism and the Republic y 

Romanism is a foreign institution. The adher- 
ents of the Roman Catholic Church in this country 
to day are the representatives of a foreign pow- 
er, intriguing in our political affairs, filling our legis- 
lative halls and lobbies, and seeking to control the 
destiny of this country. American Romanism has 
two faces, one toward Rome, and the other toward 
the simpletons who are ready to believe their protes- 
tations of loyalty to our native land. The moment- 
ous, the perilous fact, is the public indifference. 
The public peril is neglected for personal aims. 
The press panders, the politicians trim, the preach- 
ers doze, and the priests sow tares. The country 
drifts, drifts, drifts. Meanwhile duty commands 
every voice to cry aloud and spare not. — Rev. Leroy 
M, Vernon^ Syracuse^ N. K, eighteen years a missionary 
in Italy, 

Romanists use two sets of books, one with which 
to deceive Protestants, and the other with which to 
enslave their subjects. — Rev, Richard Harcourt^ in 
^^The Great Conspiracy Against the Public Schools J ^ 



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